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Bayesian experimental design (BED) is a tool for guiding experiments founded on the principle of expected information gain. I.e., which experiment design will inform the most about the model can be predicted before experiments in a…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-09-10 Eric A. Walker , Kishore Ravisankar

Many approaches for optimizing decision making models rely on gradient based methods requiring informative feedback from the environment. However, in the case where such feedback is sparse or uninformative, such approaches may result in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Mohit Rajpal , Lac Gia Tran , Yehong Zhang , Bryan Kian Hsiang Low

This work proposes ensemble Kalman randomized maximum likelihood estimation, a new derivative-free method for performing randomized maximum likelihood estimation, which is a method that can be used to generate approximate samples from…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Pavlos Stavrinides , Elizabeth Qian

We consider infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by time-dependent partial differential equations (PDEs) and develop a mathematical and computational framework for optimal design of mobile sensor paths in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-01-22 J. Nicholas Neuberger , Alen Alexanderian , Bart van Bloemen Waanders , Ahmed Attia

Traditional methods for system discovery frequently struggle with efficient data usage and uncertainty quantification. Identifying the governing equations of complex dynamical systems from data presents a significant challenge in scientific…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-04-14 Cindy Xiangrui Kong , Haoyang Zheng , Guang Lin

We present an efficient method for computing A-optimal experimental designs for infinite-dimensional Bayesian linear inverse problems governed by partial differential equations (PDEs). Specifically, we address the problem of optimizing the…

Computation · Statistics 2014-05-29 Alen Alexanderian , Noemi Petra , Georg Stadler , Omar Ghattas

The design complexity is increasing as the technology node keeps scaling down. As a result, the electronic design automation (EDA) tools also become more and more complex. There are lots of parameters involved in EDA tools, which results in…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-12-16 Yuzhe Ma , Ziyang Yu , Bei Yu

The Kalman filter is an algorithm for the estimation of hidden variables in dynamical systems under linear Gauss-Markov assumptions with widespread applications across different fields. Recently, its Bayesian interpretation has received a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-11-23 Manuel Baltieri , Takuya Isomura

We present a novel algorithm for parameter learning in generic deep generative models that builds upon the predictive coding (PC) framework of computational neuroscience. Our approach modifies the standard PC algorithm to bring performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Umais Zahid , Qinghai Guo , Zafeirios Fountas

This paper proposes approaches for the analysis of multiple changepoint models when dependency in the data is modelled through a hierarchical Gaussian Markov random field. Integrated nested Laplace approximations are used to approximate…

Computation · Statistics 2015-03-17 Jason Wyse , Nial Friel , Håvard Rue

This work considers sequential edge-promoting Bayesian experimental design for (discretized) linear inverse problems, exemplified by X-ray tomography. The process of computing a total variation type reconstruction of the absorption inside…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-04-02 Tapio Helin , Nuutti Hyvönen , Juha-Pekka Puska

Questions of `how best to acquire data' are essential to modeling and prediction in the natural and social sciences, engineering applications, and beyond. Optimal experimental design (OED) formalizes these questions and creates…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-01 Xun Huan , Jayanth Jagalur , Youssef Marzouk

As a means of improving analysis of biological shapes, we propose an algorithm for sampling a Riemannian manifold by sequentially selecting points with maximum uncertainty under a Gaussian process model. This greedy strategy is known to be…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-01-10 Tingran Gao , Shahar Z. Kovalsky , Ingrid Daubechies

Bayesian Optimization aims at optimizing an unknown non-convex/concave function that is costly to evaluate. We are interested in application scenarios where concurrent function evaluations are possible. Under such a setting, BO could choose…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-05-02 Javad Azimi , Ali Jalali , Xiaoli Fern

In recent years, particle-based variational inference (ParVI) methods such as Stein variational gradient descent (SVGD) have grown in popularity as scalable methods for Bayesian inference. Unfortunately, the properties of such methods…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-06-02 Louis Sharrock , Christopher Nemeth

Despite the recent success of Bayesian optimization (BO) in a variety of applications where sample efficiency is imperative, its performance may be seriously compromised in settings characterized by high-dimensional parameter spaces. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-26 Noémie Jaquier , Leonel Rozo

Bayesian optimization has been successful at global optimization of expensive-to-evaluate multimodal objective functions. However, unlike most optimization methods, Bayesian optimization typically does not use derivative information. In…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-08 Jian Wu , Matthias Poloczek , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Peter I. Frazier

Many real-life decision-making situations allow further relevant information to be acquired at a specific cost, for example, in assessing the health status of a patient we may decide to take additional measurements such as diagnostic tests…

Most computational approaches to Bayesian experimental design require making posterior calculations repeatedly for a large number of potential designs and/or simulated datasets. This can be expensive and prohibit scaling up these methods to…

Computation · Statistics 2021-11-18 Dennis Prangle , Sophie Harbisher , Colin S Gillespie

Advancements in generative artificial intelligence (AI) have introduced various AI models capable of producing impressive visual design outputs. However, when it comes to AI models in the design process, prioritizing outputs that align with…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Seung Won Lee , Jiin Choi , Kyung Hoon Hyun