Bayesian Experimental Design for Symbolic Discovery
Machine Learning
2022-11-30 v1 Computation
Abstract
This study concerns the formulation and application of Bayesian optimal experimental design to symbolic discovery, which is the inference from observational data of predictive models taking general functional forms. We apply constrained first-order methods to optimize an appropriate selection criterion, using Hamiltonian Monte Carlo to sample from the prior. A step for computing the predictive distribution, involving convolution, is computed via either numerical integration, or via fast transform methods.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2211.15860,
title = {Bayesian Experimental Design for Symbolic Discovery},
author = {Kenneth L. Clarkson and Cristina Cornelio and Sanjeeb Dash and Joao Goncalves and Lior Horesh and Nimrod Megiddo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.15860},
year = {2022}
}