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Posterior Consistency of the Silverman g-prior in Bayesian Model Choice
Zhihua Zhang · Michael Jordan · Dit-Yan Yeung

Tue Dec 9th 03:26 -- 03:27 PM @ None
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Kernel supervised learning methods can be unified by utilizing the tools from regularization theory. The duality between regularization and prior leads to interpreting regularization methods in terms of maximum a posteriori estimation and has motivated Bayesian interpretations of kernel methods. In this paper we pursue a Bayesian interpretation of sparsity in the kernel setting by making use of a mixture of a point-mass distribution and prior that we refer to as ``Silverman's g-prior.'' We provide a theoretical analysis of the posterior consistency of a Bayesian model choice procedure based on this prior. We also establish the asymptotic relationship between this procedure and the Bayesian information criterion.

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Zhihua Zhang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)
Dit-Yan Yeung (HKUST, Hong Kong)

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