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Bayes by Backprop
Since the bayes by backprop algorithm is modeling weight uncertainty by drawing samples from from a gaussian distribution, I wondered what the biggest difference to the following approach would be:
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Determining users that have been sent too many emails
The experiment is a set of users in a marketing program. We are sending campaigns to the user and want to figure out whether the user is being sent too many emails or not.
Suppose you have a dataset ...
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Parallel hyperparameter optimization techniques?
Most hyperparameter optimization technique want to evaluate points one by one.
I have an expensive optimization problem, but i can run hundreds of evaluations in parallel.
The dimension of the problem ...
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MCMC for finding Bayesian Neural Network
Is someone familiar with such an approach:
Suppose I want to build a bayesian neural network, with distributions over my parameters instead of point estimates. First I train my network with standard ...
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How to test dev set on Time Series data via forecasting
I'm implementing $3$ Bayesian Deep Learning models (links below) for my masters. I'm supposed to test them on a civil engineering time series data.
My models ...
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Hidden markov model to estimate confidence in binary time series
I have binary time series representing active/inactive states
eg. ...
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Using predicted probabilities and bayesian inference to update beliefs
I'm currently working on a project to predict the likelihood of an outcome. I'd like to implement a system where the belief the event will happen is updated after running the model on new data. ...
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Different sensitivity analysis
I have a metabolic model written in python and I would like to do a Bayesian sensitivity analysis on it to see which parameter affects it the most. Is MCMC sensitivity analysis the same as Bayesian? ...
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Bayesian optimization for a Light GBM Model
I am able to successfully improve the performance of my XGBoost model through Bayesian optimization, but the best I can achieve through Bayesian optimization when using Light GBM (my preferred choice) ...
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When to use BayesianSearchCV and how it works?
Can somebody highlight when to use BayesianSearchCV and how it works? I have seen the implementation of same on kaggle and wanted to explore it further.
Below is the link where the implementation ...
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LSTM: Converting to Bayesian Deep Neural Network
Starting from Yarin Gal's research paper on using Dropout as a Bayesian Approximation (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02142.pdf), I am trying to apply this concept to my Sequence Prediction model. My ...
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Bayes posteriograms
My main objective is to predict the posterior probability of an individual belonging to one of the classes, using Bayes theorem. The information I have is:
value of the data point
mean and stdev of ...
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How do Bayesian methods do automatic feature selection?
Someone asked me this question and I do not know I answered it correctly.
I answered the question in the following way: One type of Bayesian method is Bayesian inference and feature selection has to ...
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Why prior in MAP could be ignored?
A posterior $p(\theta\vert x) = \frac{p(x \vert \theta)p(\theta)}{p(x)} $
Many materials say that since the $p(x)$ is a constant, the $p(x)$ can be ignored. Thus, $p(\theta\vert x) \propto p(x \vert ...
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the probability distribution of dependent variables
There are three variables, X3 is a function of X1 and X2, ...
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Effect of outliers on Naive Bayes
Are Naive Bayes algorithms affected by outliers in the data? Suppose there is a data set, does one need to remove outliers before applying Naive Bayes?
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How to use SLAM on other sensor other than camera?
I have a sensor that reads electromagnetic field strength from each position.
And the field is stable and unique for each position. So the reading is simply a function of the position like this: <...
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PyMC3: how to efficiently regress on many variables?
I am sorry ahead of time if this seems like a basic question, but I had difficulty finding resources online addressing this. In PyMC3, when building a basic model of a few variables, it is easy to ...
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How do I combine two electromagnetic readings to predict the position of a sensor?
I have an electromagnetic sensor and electromagnetic field emitter.
The sensor will read power from the emitter. I want to predict the position of the sensor using the reading.
Let me simplify the ...
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Bayesian Neural net with non probibalistic Data?
Is it possible to construct a Bayesian Neural Network without Probability Distributions as dependent Variable for purpose of predictive modeling?
I mean, if id like to Infer on a Specific Value, like ...
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Bayesian optimisation in deeplearning
Has anyone tried using Bayesian optimisation to get best learning rates, and other hyperparameters for deeplearning.
How to change the parameters between the training. Any examples on callbacks?
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What makes a Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator “tree-structured?”
From what I understand the Tree-Structured Parzen Estimator (TPE) creates two probability models based on hyperparameters that exceed the performance of some threshold and hyperparameters that don't.
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How to do hidden variable learning in Bayesian Network with Python?
I learned how to use libpgm in general for Bayesian inference and learning, but I do not understand if I can use it for learning with hidden variable.
More precisely, I am trying to implement approach ...
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How to compute the maximum likelihood hypothesis?
The Bayes theorem states that:
\begin{equation}
P(h|D) = \frac{P(D|h)P(h)}{P(D)}
\end{equation}
where $D$ is the dataset and $h$ is an hypothesis from the hypothesis space $H$. Now (I'm not sure so ...
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Estimating class prevalence in unlabelled data after predicting labels with a binary classifier
I'm looking to get an estimate of the prevalence of 1's (i.e. the rate of positive labels) in a very large dataset that I have. However, I am hoping to report this percentage as a 95% credible ...
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Limits of using a normal distribution in Bayesian inference
When applying a Bayesian inference method such as Gaussian Process Regression (GPR), the assumption of a prior and likelihood function following a normal distribution is inherent. One can use an ...
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Linear Discriminant Analysis + bayesian theorem = LDA classifier??
I am new to machine learning and as I learn about Linear Discriminant Analysis, I can't see how it is used as a classifier.
I can understand the difference between LDA and PCA and I can see how LDA ...
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Probability of event given two depandant events
Is there anyway, to compute the probability of the event given two dependent events?
I know that Bayes can help if those events are independent, but what if condition events are dependent?
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How to best estimate the coefficients of a confusion matrix in case of strong class imbalance?
I have a trained binary classifier (forget about how this was trained and think of it as a magical black box) and I would like to measure its classification performance (e.g. compute a confusion ...
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Where can we find the application of bayes's theorem in Bayesian optimiation with gaussian processing
I am trying to learn bayesian optimisation by following this tutorial.
However, until now I don't get the relation between bayes's theorem to the gaussian process formalism.
Any ideas?
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When to model a problem by using the Bayes' theorem?
I have a labeled training dataset where each observation has a sentence either in English or in French as its predictors and its label (target value) is whether this sentence is English or French. The ...
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How Do Bayesian Methods in Machine Learning Help With the Problem of Limited Data? Can This Be Used for Image Classification/Recognition? [closed]
When reading about machine learning, I've often come across information stating that Bayesian methods in machine learning are effective when you only possess a limited amount of data. As someone who ...
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Algorithms behind “smartlinks” for online traffic distribution
Several traffic networks offer "smart links", where you can send online traffic, and the traffic will be sent to the most profitable segment. These networks include Monetizer, Glize etc.
I.e. if you ...
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Correct calculation of BIC (Bayesian Information Criterion) to determine K for K-Means
I am trying to calculate BIC in python. In python, there is no inbuilt library for computing BIC. I referenced the following link to compute variance and BIC further:- https://stats.stackexchange.com/...
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How to integrate out hyperparameters of Gaussian process for Bayesian optimization?
I read this paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1206.2944.pdf) discussing about practical issues of Bayesian optimization and they mentioned that integrating out hyperparameters of Gaussian process using ...
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How to calculate the Probability for the Unconditional Node in the Bayesian Belief Network?
In the popular example for Bayesian Belief network Burglary Alarm how is the probability for burglary P(B) and earthquake P(E) calculated as 0.001 and 0.002 respectively?
Is it an assumption made or ...
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Statistical inference on a very small datasets
I have been working with machine learning for about a year now, but mostly with large datasets. However, I am currently working on a problem with a very small dataset. Here is my problem: I am ...
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Custom regularisation for logistics regression
My understanding of l2 regularisation:
Weights of the model are assumed to have a prior guassian distribution centered around 0. Then MAP estimate over data adds an extra penalty in cost function.
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Creating a posterior distribution for classic coin flipping in python using grid search
I'm reading the book "Bayesian Analysis with Python" and the author provides some python code designed to show the grid search method of obtaining an approximate posterior distribution for the classic ...
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How to interpret long equations in Deep Learning papers
For eg. I've been studying a paper on Recommender systems using collaborative deep learning and I've just started learning.
The paper revolves around the NN representation as shown below
The ...
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Bayesian linear regression / categorical variable / Laplace prior
I'm trying to do feature selection in the bayesian framework with a Laplace prior with the following code in Python;
Code:
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RNADE vs MDR vs BART vs Bayesian Linear Regression
I'm looking at a collection of problems where I need to forecast the probability of a continuous variable. My dependent variables are a combination of categorical and continuous. It looks like there ...
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ML algorithm where variable importance depends upon other variables - specifying conditionality
I am designing an algorithm that can detect cheating in a game of chess.
I have a database of players who have been flagged by moderators as cheating, along with a number of game-level ...
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Replacing missing value by class conditional mean
I have two classes, $p(x|y=0)$ and $p(x|y=1)$ with ${{\mu }_{0}}$ and ${{\mu }_{1}}$ as mean and shared covariance matrix $\Sigma $. Now, I have a missing feature ${{x}_{n}}$ for a particular ...
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How to use pymc3 to sample the mean of a Pareto random variable?
I Have a variable which is Pareto-ly distributed 'x', with unknown alpha and m.
I want to find out the distribution of its mean, so I use the following model:
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information leakage when using empirical Bayesian to generate a predictor
Consider the following problem: I want to predict the next bat of a set of baseball player. I have a training data set, where it contains the historical bat records (0-1 encoded, which is our target ...
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Ensemble learning [closed]
I am currently working to build a mathematical model to predict the stock market. I learned that the best way to do such thing is no longer to make one big best model, but rather to gather several ...
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How to Combine Multiple Empirical Bayes Estimations
I've recently purchased and read the excellent book, Introduction to Empirical Bayes by David Robinson. As someone who is not a trained statistician, but has an interest in data science, I found this ...
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Why the estimated Lasso coefficients of almost all variables are equal to zero?
I would greatly appreciate if you could guide me. In fact, I used "Bayesian Optimization " to tune hyper-parameters of Lasso but the estimated Lasso coefficients of almost all variables are equal to ...
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Implement gaussian mixture model with stochastic variational inference
I am trying to implement Gaussian Mixture model with stochastic variational inference, following this paper.
This is the pgm of Gaussian Mixture.
According to the paper, the full algorithm of ...
