3 papers
stat.AP2022
A Bayesian framework for genome-wide inference of DNA methylation levels
Marcel Hirt, Axel Finke, Alexandros Beskos +4
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic mark that has been studied extensively for its regulatory role in biological processes and diseases. WGBS allows for genome-wide measurem…
stat.CO2021
Conditional sequential Monte Carlo in high dimensions
Axel Finke, Alexandre H. Thiery
The iterated conditional sequential Monte Carlo (i-CSMC) algorithm from Andrieu, Doucet and Holenstein (2010) is an MCMC approach for efficiently sampling from the joint posterior…
stat.ML2019
On importance-weighted autoencoders
Axel Finke, Alexandre H. Thiery
The importance weighted autoencoder (IWAE) (Burda et al., 2016) is a popular variational-inference method which achieves a tighter evidence bound (and hence a lower bias) than stan…