Certified dimension reduction in nonlinear Bayesian inverse problems

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العنوان: Certified dimension reduction in nonlinear Bayesian inverse problems
المؤلفون: Zahm, Olivier, Cui, Tiangang, Law, Kody, Spantini, Alessio, Marzouk, Youssef
سنة النشر: 2018
المجموعة: Computer Science
Mathematics
Statistics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Probability, Mathematics - Numerical Analysis, Statistics - Methodology
الوصف: We propose a dimension reduction technique for Bayesian inverse problems with nonlinear forward operators, non-Gaussian priors, and non-Gaussian observation noise. The likelihood function is approximated by a ridge function, i.e., a map which depends non-trivially only on a few linear combinations of the parameters. We build this ridge approximation by minimizing an upper bound on the Kullback--Leibler divergence between the posterior distribution and its approximation. This bound, obtained via logarithmic Sobolev inequalities, allows one to certify the error of the posterior approximation. Computing the bound requires computing the second moment matrix of the gradient of the log-likelihood function. In practice, a sample-based approximation of the upper bound is then required. We provide an analysis that enables control of the posterior approximation error due to this sampling. Numerical and theoretical comparisons with existing methods illustrate the benefits of the proposed methodology.
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03712
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.1807.03712
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv