Gibbs Sampling Methods for Stick-Breaking Priors
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折棍先验的 Gibbs 抽样方法
- 研究问题
- 如何为采用折棍随机概率测度先验的贝叶斯层次模型构造通用 Gibbs 抽样，并减少对显式预测规则的依赖？
- 方法与思路
- 作者提出广义 Pólya urn 与分块两类 Gibbs 抽样；前者利用已知预测规则，后者直接从随机测度的后验抽取取值。
- 材料陈述的贡献
- 摘要称分块方法无需显式预测规则，适用性更一般，可避免 Pólya urn 方法的部分限制，并可能更便于非专家使用。
- 阅读关注点
- 核对两类抽样的条件分布与适用先验、分块实现是否涉及截断，以及后验抽样正确性、收敛与计算比较的依据。
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A rich and flexible class of random probability measures, which we call stick-breaking priors, can be constructed using a sequence of independent beta random variables. Examples of random measures that have this characterization include the Dirichlet process, its two-parameter extension, the two-parameter Poisson–Dirichlet process, finite dimensional Dirichlet priors, and beta two-parameter processes. The rich nature of stick-breaking priors offers Bayesians a useful class of priors for nonparametric problems, while the similar construction used in each prior can be exploited to develop a general computational procedure for fitting them. In this article we present two general types of Gibbs samplers that can be used to fit posteriors of Bayesian hierarchical models based on stick-breaking priors. The first type of Gibbs sampler, referred to as a Pólya urn Gibbs sampler, is a generalized version of a widely used Gibbs sampling method currently employed for Dirichlet process computing. This method applies to stick-breaking priors with a known Pólya urn characterization, that is, priors with an explicit and simple prediction rule. Our second method, the blocked Gibbs sampler, is based on an entirely different approach that works by directly sampling values from the posterior of the random measure. The blocked Gibbs sampler can be viewed as a more general approach because it works without requiring an explicit prediction rule. We find that the blocked Gibbs avoids some of the limitations seen with the Pólya urn approach and should be simpler for nonexperts to use.