Title
A variational Bayesian approach for inverse problems with skew-t error distributions
Abstract
In this work, we develop a novel robust Bayesian approach to inverse problems with data errors following a skew-t distribution. A hierarchical Bayesian model is developed in the inverse problem setup. The Bayesian approach contains a natural mechanism for regularization in the form of a prior distribution, and a LASSO type prior distribution is used to strongly induce sparseness. We propose a variational type algorithm by minimizing the Kullback-Leibler divergence between the true posterior distribution and a separable approximation. The proposed method is illustrated on several two-dimensional linear and nonlinear inverse problems, e.g. Cauchy problem and permeability estimation problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1016/j.jcp.2015.07.062
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayesian inverse problems,Hierarchical Bayesian model,Variational approximation,Kullback–Leibler divergence
Bayesian experimental design,Mathematical optimization,Categorical distribution,Bayesian linear regression,Inverse-chi-squared distribution,Bayesian hierarchical modeling,Dirichlet distribution,Bayesian statistics,Mathematics,Scaled inverse chi-squared distribution
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
301
C
0021-9991
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.42
8
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nilabja Guha1102.29
Xiaoqing Wu220.42
Yalchin Efendiev358167.04
Bangti Jin429734.45
Bani K. Mallick520220.05