A Bayesian Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification for Estimated Graph Signals

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Autores principales: Rompelberg, Lennard, Schaub, Michael T.
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author Rompelberg, Lennard
Schaub, Michael T.
author_facet Rompelberg, Lennard
Schaub, Michael T.
contents We present a Bayesian perspective on quantifying the uncertainty of graph signals estimated or reconstructed from imperfect observations. We show that many conventional methods of graph signal estimation, reconstruction and imputation, can be reinterpreted as finding the mean of a posterior Gaussian distribution, with a covariance matrix shaped by the graph structure. In this perspective, assumptions of signal smoothness as well as bandlimitedness are naturally expressible as the choice of certain prior distributions; noisy, noise-free or partial observations are expressible in terms of certain likelihood models. In addition to providing a point estimate, as most standard estimation strategies do, our probabilistic framework enables us to characterize the shape of the estimated signal distribution around the estimate in terms of the posterior covariance matrix.
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spellingShingle A Bayesian Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification for Estimated Graph Signals
Rompelberg, Lennard
Schaub, Michael T.
Signal Processing
We present a Bayesian perspective on quantifying the uncertainty of graph signals estimated or reconstructed from imperfect observations. We show that many conventional methods of graph signal estimation, reconstruction and imputation, can be reinterpreted as finding the mean of a posterior Gaussian distribution, with a covariance matrix shaped by the graph structure. In this perspective, assumptions of signal smoothness as well as bandlimitedness are naturally expressible as the choice of certain prior distributions; noisy, noise-free or partial observations are expressible in terms of certain likelihood models. In addition to providing a point estimate, as most standard estimation strategies do, our probabilistic framework enables us to characterize the shape of the estimated signal distribution around the estimate in terms of the posterior covariance matrix.
title A Bayesian Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification for Estimated Graph Signals
topic Signal Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12971