Bayesian inference of COVID-19 spreading rates in South Africa

R Mbuvha, T Marwala - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has
highlighted the need for performing accurate inference with limited data. Fundamental to the …

[HTML][HTML] Separable shadow Hamiltonian hybrid Monte Carlo for Bayesian neural network inference in wind speed forecasting

R Mbuvha, WT Mongwe, T Marwala - Energy and AI, 2021 - Elsevier
Accurate wind speed and consequently wind power forecasts form a critical enabling tool for
large scale wind energy adoption. Probabilistic machine learning models such as Bayesian …

Stock price prediction using sentiment analysis

T Sidogi, R Mbuvha, T Marwala - 2021 IEEE International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We investigate the influence of financial news headline sentiment on the predictability of
stock prices using Long Term Short Term Memory (LSTM) networks. The investigation is …

Bayesian inference of local government audit outcomes

WT Mongwe, R Mbuvha, T Marwala - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
The scandals in publicly listed companies have highlighted the large losses that can result
from financial statement fraud and weak corporate governance. Machine learning …

Antithetic magnetic and shadow hamiltonian monte carlo

WT Mongwe, R Mbuvha, T Marwala - IEEE Access, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo is a Markov Chain Monte Carlo method that has been widely
applied to numerous posterior inference problems within the machine learning literature …

On data-driven management of the COVID-19 outbreak in South Africa

R Mbuvha, T Marwala - medRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
The rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has highlighted the need for the
development of rapid mitigating responses under conditions of extreme uncertainty. While …

[图书][B] Hamiltonian Monte Carlo methods in machine learning

T Marwala, R Mbuvha, WT Mongwe - 2023 - books.google.com
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Methods in Machine Learning introduces methods for optimal
tuning of HMC parameters, along with an introduction of Shadow and Non-canonical HMC …

Probabilistic inference of south african equity option prices under jump-diffusion processes

WT Mongwe, T Sidogi, R Mbuvha… - 2022 IEEE Symposium …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Jump-diffusion processes have been utilised to capture the leptokurtic nature of asset
returns and to fit the market observed option volatility skew with great success. These …

[图书][B] Hybrid Monte Carlo methods in machine learning: stochastic volatility methods, shadow Hamiltonians, adaptive approaches and variance reduction techniques

WT Mongwe - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Abstract Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods are a vital inference tool for
probabilistic machine learning models. A commonly utilised MCMC algorithm is the …

Parameter Inference Using Probabilistic Techniques

R Mbuvha - 2021 - search.proquest.com
Complex non-linear prediction systems have become ubiquitous in numerous decision
making and other socio-technical systems. In recent years, the increased adoption and use …