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most citedVariational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

61 citations · 327 across the 24 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

math.ST2025

Semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises theorems for reversible diffusions

Matteo Giordano, Kolyan Ray

We establish a general semiparametric Bernstein-von Mises theorem for Bayesian nonparametric priors based on continuous observations in a periodic reversible multidimensional diffu…

stat.ML2024

A variational Bayes approach to inference for low-dimensional parameters in high-dimensional linear regression

Ismaël Castillo, Alice L'Huillier, Kolyan Ray +1

We propose a scalable variational Bayes method for statistical inference for a single or pre-specified low-dimensional subset of the coordinates of a high-dimensional parameter in…

math.ST2024

Bayesian Nonparametric Inference in McKean-Vlasov models

Richard Nickl, Grigorios A. Pavliotis, Kolyan Ray

We consider nonparametric statistical inference on a periodic interaction potential from noisy discrete space-time measurements of solutions of the nonlinear McKean-Vla…

math.ST2023★ 1 cited

Pointwise uncertainty quantification for sparse variational Gaussian process regression with a Brownian motion prior

Luke Travis, Kolyan Ray

We study pointwise estimation and uncertainty quantification for a sparse variational Gaussian process method with eigenvector inducing variables. For a rescaled Brownian motion pr…

stat.ME2023

Group Spike and Slab Variational Bayes

Michael Komodromos, Marina Evangelou, Sarah Filippi +1

We introduce Group Spike-and-slab Variational Bayes (GSVB), a scalable method for group sparse regression. A fast co-ordinate ascent variational inference (CAVI) algorithm is devel…

math.ST2023★ 2 cited

Semiparametric inference using fractional posteriors

Alice L'Huillier, Luke Travis, Ismaël Castillo +1

We establish a general Bernstein--von Mises theorem for approximately linear semiparametric functionals of fractional posterior distributions based on nonparametric priors. This is…

math.ST2022★ 2 cited

Nonparametric Bayesian estimation in a multidimensional diffusion model with high frequency data

Marc Hoffmann, Kolyan Ray

We consider nonparametric Bayesian inference in a multidimensional diffusion model with reflecting boundary conditions based on discrete high-frequency observations. We prove a gen…

stat.AP2022★ 3 cited

Bayesian material flow analysis for systems with multiple levels of disaggregation and high dimensional data

Junyang Wang, Kolyan Ray, Pablo Brito-Parada +6

Material Flow Analysis (MFA) is used to quantify and understand the life cycles of materials from production to end of use, which enables environmental, social and economic impacts…

stat.ML2022★ 7 cited

On the inability of Gaussian process regression to optimally learn compositional functions

Matteo Giordano, Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We rigorously prove that deep Gaussian process priors can outperform Gaussian process priors if the target function has a compositional structure. To this end, we study information…

stat.ME2021★ 8 cited

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional proportional hazards models with applications within gene expression

Michael Komodromos, Eric Aboagye, Marina Evangelou +2

Few Bayesian methods for analyzing high-dimensional sparse survival data provide scalable variable selection, effect estimation and uncertainty quantification. Such methods often e…

math.ST2020★ 18 cited

Nonparametric Bayesian inference for reversible multi-dimensional diffusions

Matteo Giordano, Kolyan Ray

We study nonparametric Bayesian models for reversible multi-dimensional diffusions with periodic drift. For continuous observation paths, reversibility is exploited to prove a gene…

stat.ML2020★ 12 cited

Spike and slab variational Bayes for high dimensional logistic regression

Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo, Gabriel Clara

Variational Bayes (VB) is a popular scalable alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo for Bayesian inference. We study a mean-field spike and slab VB approximation of widely used Ba…

math.ST2020★ 8 cited

On the Bernstein-von Mises theorem for the Dirichlet process

Kolyan Ray, Aad van der Vaart

We establish that Laplace transforms of the posterior Dirichlet process converge to those of the limiting Brownian bridge process in a neighbourhood about zero, uniformly over Gliv…

stat.ML2019★ 5 cited

Debiased Bayesian inference for average treatment effects

Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo

Bayesian approaches have become increasingly popular in causal inference problems due to their conceptual simplicity, excellent performance and in-built uncertainty quantification…

stat.ME2019★ 61 cited

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo

We study a mean-field spike and slab variational Bayes (VB) approximation to Bayesian model selection priors in sparse high-dimensional linear regression. Under compatibility condi…

math.ST2018★ 37 cited

Nonparametric statistical inference for drift vector fields of multi-dimensional diffusions

Richard Nickl, Kolyan Ray

The problem of determining a periodic Lipschitz vector field from an observed trajectory of the solution of the multi-dimensional stoch…

math.ST2018★ 23 cited

Semiparametric Bayesian causal inference

Kolyan Ray, Aad van der Vaart

We develop a semiparametric Bayesian approach for estimating the mean response in a missing data model with binary outcomes and a nonparametrically modelled propensity score. Equiv…

math.ST2018★ 2 cited

Asymptotic nonequivalence of density estimation and Gaussian white noise for small densities

Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

It is well-known that density estimation on the unit interval is asymptotically equivalent to a Gaussian white noise experiment, provided the densities are sufficiently smooth and…

math.ST2017★ 8 cited

A Bayesian nonparametric approach to log-concave density estimation

Ester Mariucci, Kolyan Ray, Botond Szabo

The estimation of a log-concave density on is a canonical problem in the area of shape-constrained nonparametric inference. We present a Bayesian nonparametric approac…

math.ST2016★ 9 cited

The Le Cam distance between density estimation, Poisson processes and Gaussian white noise

Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

It is well-known that density estimation on the unit interval is asymptotically equivalent to a Gaussian white noise experiment, provided the densities have Hölder smoothness large…

math.ST2015★ 7 cited

Minimax theory for a class of non-linear statistical inverse problems

Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We study a class of statistical inverse problems with non-linear pointwise operators motivated by concrete statistical applications. A two-step procedure is proposed, where the fir…

math.FA2015★ 6 cited

A regularity class for the roots of non-negative functions

Kolyan Ray, Johannes Schmidt-Hieber

We investigate the regularity of the positive roots of a non-negative function of one-variable. A modified Hölder space is introduced such that if $f\in \mathcal{F}…

math.ST2014★ 54 cited

Adaptive Bernstein-von Mises theorems in Gaussian white noise

Kolyan Ray

We investigate Bernstein-von Mises theorems for adaptive nonparametric Bayesian procedures in the canonical Gaussian white noise model. We consider both a Hilbert space and multisc…

math.ST2012★ 54 cited

Bayesian inverse problems with non-conjugate priors

Kolyan Ray

We investigate the frequentist posterior contraction rate of nonparametric Bayesian procedures in linear inverse problems in both the mildly and severely ill-posed cases. A theorem…