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Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation †
We consider estimating the marginal likelihood in settings with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. We propose estimating the predictive distributions in a sequential factorization of the marginal likelihood in such settings by using stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo te...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514453/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21111109 |
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author | Cameron, Scott A. Eggers, Hans C. Kroon, Steve |
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description | We consider estimating the marginal likelihood in settings with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. We propose estimating the predictive distributions in a sequential factorization of the marginal likelihood in such settings by using stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. This approach is far more efficient than traditional marginal likelihood estimation techniques such as nested sampling and annealed importance sampling due to its use of mini-batches to approximate the likelihood. Stability of the estimates is provided by an adaptive annealing schedule. The resulting stochastic gradient annealed importance sampling (SGAIS) technique, which is the key contribution of our paper, enables us to estimate the marginal likelihood of a number of models considerably faster than traditional approaches, with no noticeable loss of accuracy. An important benefit of our approach is that the marginal likelihood is calculated in an online fashion as data becomes available, allowing the estimates to be used for applications such as online weighted model combination. |
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spelling | pubmed-75144532020-11-09 Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † Cameron, Scott A. Eggers, Hans C. Kroon, Steve Entropy (Basel) Article We consider estimating the marginal likelihood in settings with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. We propose estimating the predictive distributions in a sequential factorization of the marginal likelihood in such settings by using stochastic gradient Markov Chain Monte Carlo techniques. This approach is far more efficient than traditional marginal likelihood estimation techniques such as nested sampling and annealed importance sampling due to its use of mini-batches to approximate the likelihood. Stability of the estimates is provided by an adaptive annealing schedule. The resulting stochastic gradient annealed importance sampling (SGAIS) technique, which is the key contribution of our paper, enables us to estimate the marginal likelihood of a number of models considerably faster than traditional approaches, with no noticeable loss of accuracy. An important benefit of our approach is that the marginal likelihood is calculated in an online fashion as data becomes available, allowing the estimates to be used for applications such as online weighted model combination. MDPI 2019-11-12 /pmc/articles/PMC7514453/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21111109 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Cameron, Scott A. Eggers, Hans C. Kroon, Steve Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title | Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title_full | Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title_fullStr | Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title_full_unstemmed | Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title_short | Stochastic Gradient Annealed Importance Sampling for Efficient Online Marginal Likelihood Estimation † |
title_sort | stochastic gradient annealed importance sampling for efficient online marginal likelihood estimation † |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514453/ http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/e21111109 |
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