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  <dc:title>Proximal Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for Non-Smooth Bayesian
Inference</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package pHMC version 0.1.0</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Implements the Proximal Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (p-HMC)
    algorithm for Bayesian sampling and estimation from non-differentiable
    target densities. The method decomposes a target potential into a smooth
    component f(x) and a non-smooth convex component g(x), approximating
    only g(x) via its Moreau-Yosida envelope while retaining exact gradient
    information for f(x). This approach, based on the methodology described
    in Shukla, Vats, and Chi (2025) &lt;doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.22252&gt;,
    yields improved Hamiltonian conservation over full-potential smoothing
    approaches. The package provides generalized routines accepting
    user-defined probability density functions, log-likelihoods, priors,
    and proximal operators, together with automated hyperparameter tuning
    for the Moreau-Yosida regularization parameter, Markov chain Monte
    Carlo convergence diagnostics, effective sample size computation,
    and model evaluation metrics including the Akaike information criterion
    and Bayesian information criterion.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Imports: stats, graphics, grDevices, utils, Matrix</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Suggests: testthat (&gt;= 3.0.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Shikhar Tyagi &lt;shikhar1093tyagi@gmail.com&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Shikhar Tyagi [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    &lt;https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1606-0844&gt;),
  Arvind Pandey [aut],
  Bhupendra Singh [aut],
  Vrijesh Tripathi [aut]</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 2)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2026-08-21</dc:date>
  <dc:format>application/tgz</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=pHMC</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.pHMC</dc:identifier>
</oai_dc:dc>
