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For large model spaces, the potential entrapment of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) based methods with spike-and-slab priors poses significant challenges in posterior computation in regression models. On the other hand, maximum a posteriori…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-02-25 Shamriddha De , Joyee Ghosh

In this paper, we present an information theoretic analysis of the blind signal classification algorithm. We show that the algorithm is equivalent to a Maximum A Posteriori (MAP) estimator based on estimated parametric probability models.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2010-01-13 Xudong Ma

In this study, a family of distributions called cubic lower record-based transmuted is provided. A special case of this family is proposed as an alternative exponential distribution. Several statistical properties are explored. We utilize…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-01-06 Caner Tanış

The application of current generation computing machines in safety-centric applications like implantable biomedical chips and automobile safety has immensely increased the need for reviewing the worst-case error behavior of computing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Karthikeyan Lingasubramanian , Syed M. Alam , Sanjukta Bhanja

We consider the question of learning the natural parameters of a $k$ parameter minimal exponential family from i.i.d. samples in a computationally and statistically efficient manner. We focus on the setting where the support as well as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Abhin Shah , Devavrat Shah , Gregory W. Wornell

The maximum a-posteriori (MAP) perturbation framework has emerged as a useful approach for inference and learning in high dimensional complex models. By maximizing a randomly perturbed potential function, MAP perturbations generate unbiased…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-10-17 Francesco Orabona , Tamir Hazan , Anand D. Sarwate , Tommi Jaakkola

In recent literature, when modeling for information freshness in remote estimation settings, estimators have been mainly restricted to the class of martingale estimators, meaning the remote estimate at any time is equal to the most recently…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Sahan Liyanaarachchi , Sennur Ulukus , Nail Akar

Mixture models are useful in a wide array of applications to identify subpopulations in noisy overlapping distributions. For example, in multiplexed immunofluorescence (mIF), cell image intensities represent expression levels and the cell…

The performance of Maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation is studied analytically for binary symmetric multi-channel Hidden Markov processes. We reduce the estimation problem to a 1D Ising spin model and define order parameters that…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Avik Halder , Ansuman Adhikary

The replica method is a non-rigorous but well-known technique from statistical physics used in the asymptotic analysis of large, random, nonlinear problems. This paper applies the replica method, under the assumption of replica symmetry, to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Sundeep Rangan , Alyson K. Fletcher , Vivek K Goyal

In this paper, we consider the maximum a posteriori (MAP) estimation for the multiple measurement vectors (MMV) problem with application to direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation, which is classically formulated as a regularized…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Tianyi Liu , Frederic Matter , Alexander Sorg , Marc E. Pfetsch , Martin Haardt , Marius Pesavento

We consider the problem of upper bounding the expected log-likelihood sub-optimality of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE), or a conjugate maximum a posteriori (MAP) for an exponential family, in a non-asymptotic way. Surprisingly, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-11-15 Rémi Le Priol , Frederik Kunstner , Damien Scieur , Simon Lacoste-Julien

Many Bayesian statistical inference problems come down to computing a maximum a-posteriori (MAP) assignment of latent variables. Yet, standard methods for estimating the MAP assignment do not have a finite time guarantee that the algorithm…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-31 Harsh Vardhan Dubey , Ji Ah Lee , Patrick Flaherty

Multifidelity Monte Carlo methods rely on a hierarchy of possibly less accurate but statistically correlated simplified or reduced models, in order to accelerate the estimation of statistics of high-fidelity models without compromising the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Alessio Quaglino , Simone Pezzuto , Rolf Krause

The horseshoe prior is known to possess many desirable properties for Bayesian estimation of sparse parameter vectors, yet its density function lacks an analytic form. As such, it is challenging to find a closed-form solution for the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-11-08 Shu Yu Tew , Daniel F. Schmidt , Enes Makalic

Diffusion models have indeed shown great promise in solving inverse problems in image processing. In this paper, we propose a novel, problem-agnostic diffusion model called the maximum a posteriori (MAP)-based guided term estimation method…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-10 Pingping Tao , Haixia Liu , Jing Su

We present a randomized maximum a posteriori (rMAP) method for generating approximate samples of posteriors in high dimensional Bayesian inverse problems governed by large-scale forward problems. We derive the rMAP approach by: 1) casting…

Computation · Statistics 2016-02-12 Kainan Wang , Tan Bui-Thanh , Omar Ghattas

We analyze a reliable and efficient max-norm a posteriori error estimator for a control-constrained, linear-quadratic optimal control problem. The estimator yields optimal experimental rates of convergence within an adaptive loop.

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-21 Alejandro Allendes , Enrique Otarola , Richard Rankin , Abner J. Salgado

We study the inverse problem of estimating a field $u$ from data comprising a finite set of nonlinear functionals of $u$, subject to additive noise; we denote this observed data by $y$. Our interest is in the reconstruction of piecewise…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-09-13 Matthew M. Dunlop , Andrew M. Stuart

The maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) is pivotal in statistical inference, yet its application is often hindered by the absence of closed-form solutions for many models. This poses challenges in real-time computation scenarios,…

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