Paper: Spectral Partitioning Accelerates Convergence of Finite Markov Chains

michaelchchoi · x · 2026-08-26

A new paper introduces spectral algorithms for selecting state-space partitions to accelerate the convergence of finite, ergodic Markov chains. The method uses weighted k-means on eigenvectors to optimize the averaging kernels.

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