FBMS: An R Package for Flexible Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging
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| author | Frommlet, Florian Lachmann, Jon Storvik, Geir Hubin, Aliaksandr |
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| contents | The FBMS R package facilitates Bayesian model selection and model averaging in complex regression settings by employing a variety of Monte Carlo model exploration methods. At its core, the package implements an efficient Mode Jumping Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MJMCMC) algorithm, designed to improve mixing in multi-modal posterior landscapes within Bayesian generalized linear models. In addition, it provides a genetically modified MJMCMC (GMJMCMC) algorithm that introduces nonlinear feature generation, thereby enabling the estimation of Bayesian generalized nonlinear models (BGNLMs). Within this framework, the algorithm maintains and updates populations of transformed features, computes their posterior probabilities, and evaluates the posteriors of models constructed from them. We demonstrate the effective use of FBMS for both inferential and predictive modeling in Gaussian regression, focusing on different instances of the BGNLM class of models. Furthermore, through a broad set of applications, we illustrate how the methodology can be extended to increasingly complex modeling scenarios, extending to other response distributions and mixed effect models. |
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| spellingShingle | FBMS: An R Package for Flexible Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging Frommlet, Florian Lachmann, Jon Storvik, Geir Hubin, Aliaksandr Methodology Machine Learning Applications Computation 62-02, 62-09, 62F07, 62F15, 62J12, 62J05, 62J99, 62M05, 05A16, 60J22, 92D20, 90C27, 90C59 G.1.2; G.1.6; G.2.1; G.3; I.2.0; I.2.6; I.2.8; I.5.1; I.6; I.6.4 The FBMS R package facilitates Bayesian model selection and model averaging in complex regression settings by employing a variety of Monte Carlo model exploration methods. At its core, the package implements an efficient Mode Jumping Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MJMCMC) algorithm, designed to improve mixing in multi-modal posterior landscapes within Bayesian generalized linear models. In addition, it provides a genetically modified MJMCMC (GMJMCMC) algorithm that introduces nonlinear feature generation, thereby enabling the estimation of Bayesian generalized nonlinear models (BGNLMs). Within this framework, the algorithm maintains and updates populations of transformed features, computes their posterior probabilities, and evaluates the posteriors of models constructed from them. We demonstrate the effective use of FBMS for both inferential and predictive modeling in Gaussian regression, focusing on different instances of the BGNLM class of models. Furthermore, through a broad set of applications, we illustrate how the methodology can be extended to increasingly complex modeling scenarios, extending to other response distributions and mixed effect models. |
| title | FBMS: An R Package for Flexible Bayesian Model Selection and Model Averaging |
| topic | Methodology Machine Learning Applications Computation 62-02, 62-09, 62F07, 62F15, 62J12, 62J05, 62J99, 62M05, 05A16, 60J22, 92D20, 90C27, 90C59 G.1.2; G.1.6; G.2.1; G.3; I.2.0; I.2.6; I.2.8; I.5.1; I.6; I.6.4 |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00753 |