Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Gibbs Priors for Bayesian Nonparametric Variable Selection with Weak Learners. |
| Authors: |
Linero, Antonio R.1 (AUTHOR), Du, Junliang2 (AUTHOR) |
| Superior Title: |
Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics. Jul-Sep2023, Vol. 32 Issue 3, p1046-1059. 14p. |
| Subject Terms: |
*DECISION trees, BOLTZMANN factor, REGRESSION trees, TENSOR products, BOOSTING algorithms, SPLINES |
| Abstract: |
We consider the problem of high-dimensional Bayesian nonparametric variable selection using an aggregation of so-called "weak learners." The most popular variant of this is the Bayesian additive regression trees (BART) model, which is the natural Bayesian analog to boosting decision trees. In this article, we use Gibbs distributions on random partitions to induce sparsity in ensembles of weak learners. Looking at BART as a special case, we show that the class of Gibbs priors includes two recently proposed models—the Dirichlet additive regression trees (DART) model and the spike-and-forest model—as extremal cases, and we show that certain Gibbs priors are capable of achieving the benefits of both the DART and spike-and-forest models while avoiding some of their key drawbacks. We then show the promising performance of Gibbs priors for other classes of weak learners, such as tensor products of spline basis functions. A Pólya Urn scheme is developed for efficient computations. for this article are available online. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Business Source Premier |
