Risk and regret of hierarchical Bayesian learners

Common statistical practice has shown that the full power of Bayesian methods is not realized until hierarchical priors are used, as these allow for greater "robustness" and the ability to "share statistical strength." Yet it is an ongoing challenge to provide a learning-theoreti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Huggins, Jonathan H., Tenenbaum, Joshua B
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Format: Article
Published: Journal of Machine Learning Research/Microtome Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112754
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9256-6727
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