Machine learning foundations· 2011
The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
On the reading lists
- #367 in the Top 500 (2026 edition)
- #31 in Machine learning foundations (2026 edition)
Why it matters
Made efficient gradient-based MCMC substantially easier to automate and deploy.
Condensed from the expert lists' notes.
The record
- First released
- 2011 (from arXiv 1111.4246)
- Published
- 2014
- Citations
- 5,607 citations, as counted by
Semantic Scholar (non-commercial licence) - Named by
- both expert lists
- Score
- 0.399 · computed rank 367 · consensus 0.385, must-read 0, citations percentile 0.811 (2010s · foundations), awards 0, existing lists 0. Method
Data sources
Catalogue data from OpenAlex (CC0), Crossref (CC0 metadata; no abstracts are shown), arXiv, and Papers With Code (CC BY-SA 4.0), and
Semantic Scholar (used under its non-commercial API licence). Each count names its source. See the method.