Scalable and accurate variational Bayes for high-dimensional binary regression models

A Fasano, D Durante, G Zanella - Biometrika, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Modern methods for Bayesian regression beyond the Gaussian response setting are often
computationally impractical or inaccurate in high dimensions. In fact, as discussed in recent …

Skewed Bernstein-von Mises theorem and skew-modal approximations

D Durante, F Pozza, B Szabo - arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.03038, 2023 - arxiv.org
Gaussian approximations are routinely employed in Bayesian statistics to ease inference
when the target posterior is intractable. Although these approximations are asymptotically …

Computationally efficient Bayesian unit-level models for non-Gaussian data under informative sampling with application to estimation of health insurance coverage

PA Parker, SH Holan, R Janicki - The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
Computationally efficient Bayesian unit-level models for non-Gaussian data under
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[HTML][HTML] Hyperbolic Secant representation of the logistic function: Application to probabilistic Multiple Instance Learning for CT intracranial hemorrhage detection

FM Castro-Macías, P Morales-Álvarez, Y Wu… - Artificial Intelligence, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) is a weakly supervised paradigm that has been
successfully applied to many different scientific areas and is particularly well suited to …

Tractable Bayesian density regression via logit stick-breaking priors

T Rigon, D Durante - Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2021 - Elsevier
There is a growing interest in learning how the distribution of a response variable changes
with a set of observed predictors. Bayesian nonparametric dependent mixture models …

Fast Bayesian estimation of spatial count data models

P Bansal, R Krueger, DJ Graham - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2021 - Elsevier
Spatial count data models are used to explain and predict the frequency of phenomena such
as traffic accidents in geographically distinct entities such as census tracts or road segments …

Fast variational inference for Bayesian factor analysis in single and multi-study settings

B Hansen, A Avalos-Pacheco, M Russo… - … of Computational and …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Factors models are commonly used to analyze high-dimensional data in both single-study
and multi-study settings. Bayesian inference for such models relies on Markov Chain Monte …

Variational inference based on a subclass of closed skew normals

LSL Tan - arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.02813, 2023 - arxiv.org
Gaussian distributions are widely used in Bayesian variational inference to approximate
intractable posterior densities, but the ability to accommodate skewness can improve …

Easy Variational Inference for Categorical Models via an Independent Binary Approximation

MT Wojnowicz, S Aeron, EL Miller… - … on Machine Learning, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
We pursue tractable Bayesian analysis of generalized linear models (GLMs) for categorical
data. GLMs have been difficult to scale to more than a few dozen categories due to non …

Structured optimal variational inference for dynamic latent space models

P Zhao, A Bhattacharya, D Pati, BK Mallick - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We consider a latent space model for dynamic networks, where our objective is to estimate
the pairwise inner products of the latent positions. To balance posterior inference and …