ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Markov Chain Monte Carlo using couplings toward scalable statistical inference
This project develops a statistical toolbox for the approximation of probability distributions that commonly arise in data analysis. The problem of approximating probabilities arise in many tasks of data science: in Bayesian statistics and its many variants, in classical hypothesis testing with p-values, in likelihood-based methods when the model involves latent variables, in models with intractable likelihoods, in the construction of knockoffs for principled variable selection, for example. State-of-the-art methods for such approximations include Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), where a Markov chain is generated in such a way that it converges to the probability of interest as the length…
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