Multilevel Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers for Normalizing Constants

DOI10.1145/3092841MaRDI QIDQ6173267zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Pierre Del Moral, Ajay Jasra, K. J. H. Law, Yan Zhou

Publication date 21 July 2023

Published in ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.01136, https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/multilevel-sequential-monte-carlo-samplers-for-normalizing-constants(ab1f8afa-9ea2-4813-a2fd-e190b0768bdd).html

zbMATH Keywords

sequential Monte Carlomultilevel Monte CarloBayesian inverse problems

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Bayesian inference (62F15) Monte Carlo methods (65C05)

Abstract: This article considers the sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) approximation of ratios of normalizing constants associated to posterior distributions which in principle rely on continuum models. Therefore, the Monte Carlo estimation error and the discrete approximation error must be balanced. A multilevel strategy is utilized to substantially reduce the cost to obtain a given error level in the approximation as compared to standard estimators. Two estimators are considered and relative variance bounds are given. The theoretical results are numerically illustrated for the example of identifying a parametrized permeability in an elliptic equation given point-wise observations of the pressure.

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