Sequential Quasi-Monte Carlo

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• Chopin, N (Centre de Recherche en conomie et Statistique (CREST))
• Tuesday 22 April 2014, 10:30-11:05
• Seminar Room 1, Newton Institute.

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Advanced Monte Carlo Methods for Complex Inference Problems

Co-author: Mathieu Gerber (Universit de Lausanne and CREST )

We develop a new class of algorithms, SQMC (Sequential Quasi-Monte Carlo), as a variant of SMC (Sequential Monte Carlo) based on low-discrepancy points. The complexity of SQMC is O(Nlog N), where N is the number of simulations at each iteration, and its error rate is smaller than the Monte Carlo rate O(N^{). The only requirement to implement SQMC is the ability to write the simulation of particle x}n_t given x^{n_{t-1} as a deterministic function of x}n_{t-1} and uniform variates. We show that SQMC is amenable to the same extensions as standard SMC , such as forward smoothing, backward smoothing, unbiased likelihood evaluation, and so on. In particular, SQMC may replace SMC within a PMCMC (particle Markov chain Monte Carlo) algorithm. We establish several convergence results. We provide numerical evidence in several difficult scenarios than SQMC significantly outperforms SMC in terms of approximation error.

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