Adaptive posterior distributions for uncertainty analysis of covariance matrices in Bayesian inversion problems for multioutput signals

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Hauptverfasser: Curbelo, E., Martino, L., Llorente, F., Delgado-Gomez, D.
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author Curbelo, E.
Martino, L.
Llorente, F.
Delgado-Gomez, D.
author_facet Curbelo, E.
Martino, L.
Llorente, F.
Delgado-Gomez, D.
contents In this paper we address the problem of performing Bayesian inference for the parameters of a nonlinear multi-output model and the covariance matrix of the different output signals. We propose an adaptive importance sampling (AIS) scheme for multivariate Bayesian inversion problems, which is based in two main ideas: the variables of interest are split in two blocks and the inference takes advantage of known analytical optimization formulas. We estimate both the unknown parameters of the multivariate non-linear model and the covariance matrix of the noise. In the first part of the proposed inference scheme, a novel AIS technique called adaptive target adaptive importance sampling (ATAIS) is designed, which alternates iteratively between an IS technique over the parameters of the non-linear model and a frequentist approach for the covariance matrix of the noise. In the second part of the proposed inference scheme, a prior density over the covariance matrix is considered and the cloud of samples obtained by ATAIS are recycled and re-weighted to obtain a complete Bayesian study over the model parameters and covariance matrix. ATAIS is the main contribution of the work. Additionally, the inverted layered importance sampling (ILIS) is presented as a possible compelling algorithm (but based on a conceptually simpler idea). Different numerical examples show the benefits of the proposed approaches
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spellingShingle Adaptive posterior distributions for uncertainty analysis of covariance matrices in Bayesian inversion problems for multioutput signals
Curbelo, E.
Martino, L.
Llorente, F.
Delgado-Gomez, D.
Computation
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
In this paper we address the problem of performing Bayesian inference for the parameters of a nonlinear multi-output model and the covariance matrix of the different output signals. We propose an adaptive importance sampling (AIS) scheme for multivariate Bayesian inversion problems, which is based in two main ideas: the variables of interest are split in two blocks and the inference takes advantage of known analytical optimization formulas. We estimate both the unknown parameters of the multivariate non-linear model and the covariance matrix of the noise. In the first part of the proposed inference scheme, a novel AIS technique called adaptive target adaptive importance sampling (ATAIS) is designed, which alternates iteratively between an IS technique over the parameters of the non-linear model and a frequentist approach for the covariance matrix of the noise. In the second part of the proposed inference scheme, a prior density over the covariance matrix is considered and the cloud of samples obtained by ATAIS are recycled and re-weighted to obtain a complete Bayesian study over the model parameters and covariance matrix. ATAIS is the main contribution of the work. Additionally, the inverted layered importance sampling (ILIS) is presented as a possible compelling algorithm (but based on a conceptually simpler idea). Different numerical examples show the benefits of the proposed approaches
title Adaptive posterior distributions for uncertainty analysis of covariance matrices in Bayesian inversion problems for multioutput signals
topic Computation
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01148