Bayesian methods

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (HMC) is a gradient-based Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm that uses the geometry of the log-posterior surface to make large, informed jumps through parameter space instead of the small random steps of classical MCMC. Originally introduced for lattice field theory by Duane, Kennedy, Pendleton, and Roweth (1987) under the name Hybrid Monte Carlo, and brought into mainstream statistics by Radford Neal's authoritative 2011 chapter, HMC is today the default sampler in Stan and PyMC and is widely regarded as the state-of-the-art engine for Bayesian posterior inference in high-dimensional models.

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  1. Duane, S., Kennedy, A. D., Pendleton, B. J., & Roweth, D. (1987). Hybrid Monte Carlo. Physics Letters B, 195(2), 216–222. DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(87)91197-X
  2. Neal, R. M. (2011). MCMC using Hamiltonian dynamics. In S. Brooks, A. Gelman, G. L. Jones, & X.-L. Meng (Eds.), Handbook of Markov Chain Monte Carlo (pp. 116–162). Chapman and Hall/CRC. ISBN: 978-1420079418
  3. Gelman, A., Carlin, J. B., Stern, H. S., Dunson, D. B., Vehtari, A., & Rubin, D. B. (2013). Bayesian Data Analysis (3rd ed.). CRC Press. ISBN: 978-1439840955

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ScholarGateHamiltonian Monte Carlo (Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Sampling). Retrieved 2026-06-04 from https://scholargate.app/tr/bayesian/hamiltonian-monte-carlo