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Improved Guarantees for Langevin Monte Carlo with Average Smoothness

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2605.31413v1 Announce Type: cross We establish improved nonasymptotic bounds for Langevin Monte Carlo in the strongly log-concave setting, when the error is measured by the Wasserstein distance. The main result shows that the discretization error is governed by an average coordinate-wise smoothness constant, rather than by the usual global smoothness constant. The proof is short and probabilistic, and relies on a refined use of the synchronous coupling.