no code implementations • 19 Oct 2023 • Abhisek Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
The key idea is to ensure that the maximum entropy weight adjusted empirical distribution of the observed data is close to a pre-specified probability distribution in terms of the optimal transport metric while allowing for subtle departures.
no code implementations • 12 Sep 2023 • Prateek Jaiswal, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, Bani K. Mallick
Both the sub-Gaussian and exponential family models satisfy our general conditions on the reward distribution.
no code implementations • 19 Jul 2023 • Peter Matthew Jacobs, Lekha Patel, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
This result holds for the posterior mean histogram and with respect to posterior contraction: under the class of Borel probability measures and some classes of smooth densities.
no code implementations • 1 Jun 2023 • Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati, Yun Yang
As a computational alternative to Markov chain Monte Carlo approaches, variational inference (VI) is becoming more and more popular for approximating intractable posterior distributions in large-scale Bayesian models due to its comparable efficacy and superior efficiency.
no code implementations • 27 May 2023 • Abhisek Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
The advent of ML-driven decision-making and policy formation has led to an increasing focus on algorithmic fairness.
1 code implementation • 17 Mar 2023 • Abhisek Chakraborty, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
The proposed approach finds applications in a wide variety of robust inference problems, where we intend to perform inference on the parameters associated with the centering distribution in presence of outliers.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2022 • Peng Zhao, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati, Bani K. Mallick
Comparing estimated latent factors involves both adjacent and long-term comparisons, with the time range of comparison considered as a variable.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2022 • Peng Zhao, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati, Bani K. Mallick
We consider a latent space model for dynamic networks, where our objective is to estimate the pairwise inner products of the latent positions.
1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2021 • Sutanoy Dasgupta, Yabo Niu, Kishan Panaganti, Dileep Kalathil, Debdeep Pati, Bani Mallick
We consider the off-policy evaluation (OPE) problem in contextual bandits, where the goal is to estimate the value of a target policy using the data collected by a logging policy.
no code implementations • 25 Oct 2020 • Indrajit Ghosh, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
We demonstrate that these assumptions can be completely relaxed if one considers a slight variation of the algorithm by raising the likelihood to a fractional power.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2020 • Sean Plummer, Shuang Zhou, Anirban Bhattacharya, David Dunson, Debdeep Pati
More recently, transformation-based models have been used in variational inference (VI) to construct flexible implicit families of variational distributions.
no code implementations • 19 Oct 2020 • Biraj Subhra Guha, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
We provide statistical guarantees for Bayesian variational boosting by proposing a novel small bandwidth Gaussian mixture variational family.
no code implementations • 4 Jul 2020 • Se Yoon Lee, Peng Zhao, Debdeep Pati, Bani K. Mallick
In this paper, we propose a robust sparse estimation method under diverse sparsity regimes, which has a tail-adaptive shrinkage property.
1 code implementation • 17 Aug 2018 • Shuang Zhou, P. Giuliani, J. Piekarewicz, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
We have shown the impact of the physical constraints imposed on the form factor and of the range of experimental data used.
Nuclear Theory Nuclear Experiment Applications
no code implementations • 25 Dec 2017 • Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, Yun Yang
The article addresses a long-standing open problem on the justification of using variational Bayes methods for parameter estimation.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2017 • Yun Yang, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya
We propose a family of variational approximations to Bayesian posterior distributions, called $\alpha$-VB, with provable statistical guarantees.
no code implementations • 16 Aug 2017 • Yun Yang, Anirban Bhattacharya, Debdeep Pati
By developing a comparison inequality between two GPs, we provide exact characterization of frequentist coverage probabilities of Bayesian point-wise credible intervals and simultaneous credible bands of the regression function.
no code implementations • 26 Jan 2017 • Shuang Zhou, Debdeep Pati, Anirban Bhattacharya, David Dunson
In this article, we study rates of posterior contraction in univariate density estimation for a class of non-linear latent variable models where unobserved U(0, 1) latent variables are related to the response variables via a random non-linear regression with an additive error.
Statistics Theory Statistics Theory
no code implementations • 2 Jan 2017 • Yun Yang, Debdeep Pati
In this article, we investigate large sample properties of model selection procedures in a general Bayesian framework when a closed form expression of the marginal likelihood function is not available or a local asymptotic quadratic approximation of the log-likelihood function does not exist.
1 code implementation • 9 Dec 2016 • Gautam Sabnis, Debdeep Pati, Barbara Engelhardt, Natesh Pillai
Our approach is novel in this regard: it includes all of the $n$ samples in each subproblem and, instead, splits the dimension $p$ into smaller subsets for each subproblem.
Methodology
no code implementations • 9 Jul 2016 • Garret Vo, Debdeep Pati
Additive nonparametric regression models provide an attractive tool for variable selection in high dimensions when the relationship between the response and predictors is complex.
1 code implementation • 1 Apr 2015 • Zhengwu Zhang, Debdeep Pati, Anuj Srivastava
The elastic-inner product matrix obtained from the data is modeled using a Wishart distribution whose parameters are assigned carefully chosen prior distributions to allow for automatic inference on the number of clusters.