On the hyperprior choice for the global shrinkage parameter in the horseshoe prior

Juho Piironen, Aki Vehtari

Tutkimustuotos: Artikkeli kirjassa/konferenssijulkaisussaConference article in proceedingsScientificvertaisarvioitu

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Abstrakti

The horseshoe prior has proven to be a noteworthy alternative for sparse Bayesian estimation, but as shown in this paper, the results can be sensitive to the prior choice for the global shrinkage hyperparameter. We argue that the previous default choices are dubious due to their tendency to favor solutions with more unshrunk coefficients than we typically expect a priori. This can lead to bad results if this parameter is not strongly identified by data. We derive the relationship between the global parameter and the effective number of nonzeros in the coefficient vector, and show an easy and intuitive way of setting up the prior for the global parameter based on our prior beliefs about the number of nonzero coefficients in the model. The results on real world data show that one can benefit greatly – in terms of improved parameter estimates, prediction accuracy, and reduced computation time – from transforming even a crude guess for the number of nonzero coefficients into the prior for the global parameter using our framework.
AlkuperäiskieliEnglanti
OtsikkoProceedings of the 20th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
KustantajaJMLR
Sivumäärä9
TilaJulkaistu - 2017
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
TapahtumaInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics - Hyatt Pier 66 Hotel, Fort Lauderdale, Yhdysvallat
Kesto: 20 huhtik. 201722 huhtik. 2017
Konferenssinumero: 20

Julkaisusarja

NimiProceedings of Machine Learning Research
KustantajaPMLR
Vuosikerta54
ISSN (elektroninen)1938-7228

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
LyhennettäAISTATS
Maa/AlueYhdysvallat
KaupunkiFort Lauderdale
Ajanjakso20/04/201722/04/2017

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