cs.LGSep 14, 2026

Poisson-Corrector Complexity Bounds for Moreau--Yosida Unadjusted Langevin Sampling

Authors: Yuchen XinZhihua Zhang

Abstract

We study the classical Moreau--Yosida unadjusted Langevin algorithm (MYULA) for π(dx)ef(x)g(x)dx\pi(\,\mathrm{d} x)\propto e^{-f(x)-g(x)}\,\mathrm{d} x, where fC2(Rd)f\in C^2(\mathbb{R}^d) is mm-strongly convex with LfL_f-Lipschitz gradient and g:RdRg:\mathbb{R}^d\to\mathbb{R} is convex and globally GG-Lipschitz. For the Moreau-smoothed target πλ\pi_\lambda and the MYULA invariant law π^λ,h\widehat\pi_{\lambda,h}, we prove

mW2(πλ,π^λ,h)=O(h)+O~(h3/4)\sqrt m\,W_2(\pi_\lambda,\widehat\pi_{\lambda,h}) =O(h)+\widetilde O(h^{3/4})

under 0<h(Lf+λ1)c0<h(L_f+\lambda^{-1})\le c, with only logarithmic dependence on λ1\lambda^{-1} in the error coefficients. Combining this estimate with the Moreau approximation bias yields O~(ε4/3)\widetilde O(\varepsilon^{-4/3}) iterations to achieve mW2(μN,π)ε\sqrt m\,W_2(\mu_N,\pi)\le\varepsilon, for fixed model parameters and initialization. The proof combines a discrete Poisson corrector with active-trace estimates and a shared-noise bound for the exact--Euler two-point curvature.

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