Title
On an adaptive preconditioned Crank-Nicolson MCMC algorithm for infinite dimensional Bayesian inference.
Abstract
Many scientific and engineering problems require to perform Bayesian inference for unknowns of infinite dimension. In such problems, many standard Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms become arbitrary slow under the mesh refinement, which is referred to as being dimension dependent. To this end, a family of dimensional independent MCMC algorithms, known as the preconditioned Crank–Nicolson (pCN) methods, were proposed to sample the infinite dimensional parameters. In this work we develop an adaptive version of the pCN algorithm, where the covariance operator of the proposal distribution is adjusted based on sampling history to improve the simulation efficiency. We show that the proposed algorithm satisfies an important ergodicity condition under some mild assumptions. Finally we provide numerical examples to demonstrate the performance of the proposed method.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1016/j.jcp.2016.11.024
Journal of Computational Physics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Bayesian inference,Infinite dimensional inverse problems,Adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Ergodicity,Mathematical optimization,Markov chain Monte Carlo,Algorithm,Sampling (statistics),Statistics,Covariance operator,Crank–Nicolson method,Mathematics,Bayesian probability
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
332
0021-9991
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.57
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zixi Hu130.91
Zhewei Yao23110.58
Jinglai Li3153.01