Sampling from Gaussian graphical models using subgraph perturbations

The problem of efficiently drawing samples from a Gaussian graphical model or Gaussian Markov random field is studied. We introduce the subgraph perturbation sampling algorithm, which makes use of any pre-existing tractable inference algorithm for a subgraph by perturbing this algorithm so as to yie...

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Main Authors: Liu, Ying (Contributor), Kosut, Oliver (Author), Willsky, Alan S. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014-10-21T17:02:47Z.
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520 |a The problem of efficiently drawing samples from a Gaussian graphical model or Gaussian Markov random field is studied. We introduce the subgraph perturbation sampling algorithm, which makes use of any pre-existing tractable inference algorithm for a subgraph by perturbing this algorithm so as to yield asymptotically exact samples for the intended distribution. The subgraph can have any structure for which efficient inference algorithms exist: for example, tree-structured, low tree-width, or having a small feedback vertex set. The experimental results demonstrate that this subgraph perturbation algorithm efficiently yields accurate samples for many graph topologies. 
520 |a United States. Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Grant FA9550-12-1-0287) 
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773 |t Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory