Adaptive MCMC with Bayesian Optimization

This paper proposes a new randomized strategy for adaptive MCMC using Bayesian optimization. This approach applies to non-differentiable objective functions and trades off exploration and exploitation to reduce the number of potentially costly objective function evaluations. We demonstrate the strat...

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Main Authors: Mahendran, N, Wang, Z, Hamze, F, de Freitas, N
Format: Journal article
Published: 2012