Improving bridge estimators via \(f\)-GAN

DOI10.1007/s11222-022-10133-yzbMath1496.62024arXiv2106.07462OpenAlexW3171868693MaRDI QIDQ2080347

Hanwen Xing

Publication date: 7 October 2022

Published in: Statistics and Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.07462

zbMATH Keywords

Bayes factor\(f\)-divergencenormalizing constantsMonte Carlo estimationgenerative adversarial networknormalizing flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

Uses Software

• CUDA
• WinBUGS
• R2WinBUGS
• tsbridge
• PyTorch
• nflows
• nsf
• Flow-GAN

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