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| author | Nguyen, Nhat-Minh Tran, Minh-Ngoc Drovandi, Christopher Nott, David |
| author_facet | Nguyen, Nhat-Minh Tran, Minh-Ngoc Drovandi, Christopher Nott, David |
| contents | The Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood (BSL) method is a widely-used tool for likelihood-free Bayesian inference. This method assumes that some summary statistics are normally distributed, which can be incorrect in many applications. We propose a transformation, called the Wasserstein Gaussianization transformation, that uses a Wasserstein gradient flow to approximately transform the distribution of the summary statistics into a Gaussian distribution. BSL also implicitly requires compatibility between simulated summary statistics under the working model and the observed summary statistics. A robust BSL variant which achieves this has been developed in the recent literature. We combine the Wasserstein Gaussianization transformation with robust BSL, and an efficient Variational Bayes procedure for posterior approximation, to develop a highly efficient and reliable approximate Bayesian inference method for likelihood-free problems. |
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| institution | arXiv |
| publishDate | 2023 |
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| spellingShingle | Wasserstein Gaussianization and Efficient Variational Bayes for Robust Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood Nguyen, Nhat-Minh Tran, Minh-Ngoc Drovandi, Christopher Nott, David Computation Machine Learning The Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood (BSL) method is a widely-used tool for likelihood-free Bayesian inference. This method assumes that some summary statistics are normally distributed, which can be incorrect in many applications. We propose a transformation, called the Wasserstein Gaussianization transformation, that uses a Wasserstein gradient flow to approximately transform the distribution of the summary statistics into a Gaussian distribution. BSL also implicitly requires compatibility between simulated summary statistics under the working model and the observed summary statistics. A robust BSL variant which achieves this has been developed in the recent literature. We combine the Wasserstein Gaussianization transformation with robust BSL, and an efficient Variational Bayes procedure for posterior approximation, to develop a highly efficient and reliable approximate Bayesian inference method for likelihood-free problems. |
| title | Wasserstein Gaussianization and Efficient Variational Bayes for Robust Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood |
| topic | Computation Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14746 |