Artificial Intelligence · 06.08.2026, 10:38 UTC
Mixing-Free and Signal-Optimal Learning of Gaussian Graphical Models from Glauber Dynamics
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| Kategorie | Artificial Intelligence |
| Quelle | arXiv cs.LG ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 06.08.2026 UTC |
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arXiv:2607.18559v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Gaussian graphical model selection is usually studied under independent sampling, but in many applications the data arise as a single trajectory of a dependent stochastic process. We study exact recovery of the graph from one trajectory of random-scan Gaussian Glauber dynamics. Existing techniques for this problem either inherit the mixing time of the chain, which can be super-polynomial in the dimension $p$ without strong assumptions, or are suboptimal in the minimum normalized edge strength $\kappa$. We propose two algorithms that are mixing-free and attain the $\kappa^{-2}$ dependence of the information-theoretic lower bounds. Both instantiate a shared dueling-neighborhood search meta-algorithm with a local statistic built directly from the update sequence. For every fixed precision matrix and deterministic initialization, the first algorithm fits a least-squares regression at the updates of each node and has pointwise recovery horizon $\widetilde O(pd^{2}/\kappa^{2})$, where $d$ is the maximum degree. Its horizon depends logarithmically on a local conditioning quantity and on the initialization potential. The second algorithm is based on counting occurences of a specific update pattern and requires $\widetilde O(pd^{4}/\kappa^{2})$ updates, with no dependence on any condition number. The central technical challenge is that both statistics are built from dependent, non-stationary observations. Our analysis tackles this by demonstrating how to extract fresh Gaussian innovations from the update sequence, which …