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20182026
most citedNested sampling for physical scientists

158 citations · 158 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

stat.ME2026

-PSD: Scalable Approximate SNR-Optimised Polynomial Stein Discrepancies

Minh-Long Nguyen, Thanh-Long Vu, Christopher Drovandi +2

Polynomial Stein discrepancies (PSD) provide a scalable alternative to kernel Stein methods for measuring sample quality and goodness-of-fit testing, but their statistical properti…

stat.CO2023

Adaptively switching between a particle marginal Metropolis-Hastings and a particle Gibbs kernel in SMC

Imke Botha, Robert Kohn, Leah South +1

Sequential Monte Carlo squared (SMC; Chopin et al., 2012) methods can be used to sample from the exact posterior distribution of intractable likelihood state space models. Thes…

stat.CO2022★ 158 cited

Nested sampling for physical scientists

Greg Ashton, Noam Bernstein, Johannes Buchner +20

We review Skilling's nested sampling (NS) algorithm for Bayesian inference and more broadly multi-dimensional integration. After recapitulating the principles of NS, we survey deve…

stat.CO2022

Automatically adapting the number of state particles in SMC

Imke Botha, Robert Kohn, Leah South +1

Sequential Monte Carlo squared (SMC) methods can be used for parameter inference of intractable likelihood state-space models. These methods replace the likelihood with an unbi…

stat.CO2021

Efficient and Generalizable Tuning Strategies for Stochastic Gradient MCMC

Jeremie Coullon, Leah South, Christopher Nemeth

Stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (SGMCMC) is a popular class of algorithms for scalable Bayesian inference. However, these algorithms include hyperparameters such as st…

stat.ME2021

Post-Processing of MCMC

Leah F. South, Marina Riabiz, Onur Teymur +1

Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is the engine of modern Bayesian statistics, being used to approximate the posterior and derived quantities of interest. Despite this, the issue of…