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We develop a Bayesian approach called Bayesian projected calibration to address the problem of calibrating an imperfect computer model using observational data from a complex physical system. The calibration parameter and the physical…

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Bayesian inverse problems use observed data to update a prior probability distribution for an unknown state or parameter of a scientific system to a posterior distribution conditioned on the data. In many applications, the unknown parameter…

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Modelling complex real-world situations such as infectious diseases, geological phenomena, and biological processes can present a dilemma: the computer model (referred to as a simulator) needs to be complex enough to capture the dynamics of…

To model modern large-scale datasets, we need efficient algorithms to infer a set of $P$ unknown model parameters from $N$ noisy measurements. What are fundamental limits on the accuracy of parameter inference, given finite signal-to-noise…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-09-07 Madhu Advani , Surya Ganguli

Numerical simulations are widely used to predict the behavior of physical systems, with Bayesian approaches being particularly well suited for this purpose. However, experimental observations are necessary to calibrate certain simulator…

We address the problem of epipolar geometry using the motion of silhouettes. Such methods match epipolar lines or frontier points across views, which are then used as the set of putative correspondences. We introduce an approach that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-17 Gil Ben-Artzi

Traditional methods for matching in causal inference are impractical for high-dimensional datasets. They suffer from the curse of dimensionality: exact matching and coarsened exact matching find exponentially fewer matches as the input…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-12 Oscar Clivio , Fabian Falck , Brieuc Lehmann , George Deligiannidis , Chris Holmes

Inference for spatial generalized linear mixed models (SGLMMs) for high-dimensional non-Gaussian spatial data is computationally intensive. The computational challenge is due to the high-dimensional random effects and because Markov chain…

Computation · Statistics 2018-10-09 Yawen Guan , Murali Haran

Linear subspace representations of appearance variation are pervasive in computer vision. This paper addresses the problem of robustly matching such subspaces (computing the similarity between them) when they are used to describe the scope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Ognjen Arandjelovic

High dimensional predictive regressions are useful in wide range of applications. However, the theory is mainly developed assuming that the model is stationary with time invariant parameters. This is at odds with the prevalent evidence for…

Econometrics · Economics 2019-10-09 Kashif Yousuf , Serena Ng

In causal matching designs, some control subjects are often left unmatched, and some covariates are often left unmodeled. This article introduces "rebar," a method using high-dimensional modeling to incorporate these commonly discarded data…

Methodology · Statistics 2018-02-26 Adam C Sales , Ben B Hansen , Brian Rowan

The exact computation of the matching distance for multi-parameter persistence modules is an active area of research in computational topology. Achieving an easily obtainable exact computation of this distance would permit multi-parameter…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-10-22 Asilata Bapat , Robyn Brooks , Celia Hacker , Claudia Landi , Barbara I. Mahler , Elizabeth R. Stephenson

In this paper we tackle the problem of generating uniform designs in very small subregions of computer model input space that have been identified in previous experiments as worthy of further study. The method is capable of producing…

Methodology · Statistics 2013-09-16 Daniel Williamson , Ian Vernon

Dimension reduction is often the first step in statistical modeling or prediction of multivariate spatial data. However, most existing dimension reduction techniques do not account for the spatial correlation between observations and do not…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-05-27 Si Cheng , Magali N. Blanco , Timothy V. Larson , Lianne Sheppard , Adam Szpiro , Ali Shojaie

Comparing two (large) language models (LMs) side-by-side and pinpointing their prediction similarities and differences on the same set of inputs are crucial in many real-world scenarios, e.g., one can test if a licensed model was…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Weitang Liu , Yuelei Li , Ying Wai Li , Zihan Wang , Jingbo Shang

The complexity and accuracy of current and future precision cosmology observational campaigns has made it essential to develop an efficient technique for directly combining simulation and observational datasets to determine cosmological and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Katrin Heitmann , David Higdon , Charles Nakhleh , Salman Habib

A precision matrix is the inverse of a covariance matrix. In this paper, we study the problem of estimating the precision matrix with a known graphical structure under high-dimensional settings. We propose a simple estimator of the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Thien-Minh Le , Ping-Shou Zhong

Parametric model order reduction using reduced basis methods can be an effective tool for obtaining quickly solvable reduced order models of parametrized partial differential equation problems. With speedups that can reach several orders of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-01-26 Mario Ohlberger , Stephan Rave

Studies on simulation input uncertainty often built on the availability of input data. In this paper, we investigate an inverse problem where, given only the availability of output data, we nonparametrically calibrate the input models and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-09 Aleksandrina Goeva , Henry Lam , Huajie Qian , Bo Zhang

Calibration strengthens the trustworthiness of black-box models by producing better accurate confidence estimates on given examples. However, little is known about if model explanations can help confidence calibration. Intuitively, humans…

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