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Extension of heavy-tailed posterior contraction results to standard posteriors
Let $\alpha$ denote the power to which the likelihood is raised in the posterior, with standard posteriors corresponding to $\alpha=1$ . Standard-posterior conjecture. The theoretic…
Conjectureopenbayesian-inference heavy-tailed-priors posterior-contractionarXiv posted 2 days ago
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Standard-posterior extension of density-estimation and classification rates
The paper studies heavy-tailed priors and proves convergence results for fractional posteriors, including results for density estimation and classification. The standard posterior…
Conjectureopenbayesian-nonparametrics heavy-tailed-priors posterior-convergencearXiv posted 2 days ago

Extension of heavy-tailed posterior contraction results to standard posteriors