3 papers
math.ST2026
Empirical Bayes in Bayesian learning: understanding a common practice
Stefano Rizzelli, Judith Rousseau, Sonia Petrone
In applications of Bayesian procedures, once a class of priors has been chosen, it may be tempting to fix the prior's hyperparameters from the data, in an empirical Bayes (EB) fash…
stat.ML2026
Uncertainty Decomposition for Bayes-Filtered Transformers via Bayesian Predictive Inference
Sandra Fortini, Kenyon Ng, Sonia Petrone +2
Bayes-filtered transformers are transformers meta-learned on sequences from a prior predictive distribution to approximate the corresponding posterior predictive distribution. They…
stat.ME2025
Characterizing the Effects of Environmental Exposures on Social Mobility: Bayesian Semi-parametrics for Principal Stratification
Dafne Zorzetto, Paolo Dalla Torre, Sonia Petrone +2
Understanding the causal effects of air pollution exposures on social mobility is attracting increasing attention. At the same time, education is widely recognized as a key driver…