Two-Stage Metropolis-Hastings for Tall Data. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • This paper discusses the challenges presented by tall data problems associated with Bayesian classification (specifically binary classification) and the existing methods to handle them. Current methods include parallelizing the likelihood, subsampling, and consensus Monte Carlo. A new method based on the two-stage Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is also proposed. The purpose of this algorithm is to reduce the exact likelihood computational cost in the tall data situation. In the first stage, a new proposal is tested by the approximate likelihood based model. The full likelihood based posterior computation will be conducted only if the proposal passes the first stage screening. Furthermore, this method can be adopted into the consensus Monte Carlo framework. The two-stage method is applied to logistic regression, hierarchical logistic regression, and Bayesian multivariate adaptive regression splines.

published proceedings

  • J Classif

author list (cited authors)

  • Payne, R. D., & Mallick, B. K.

citation count

  • 13

complete list of authors

  • Payne, Richard D||Mallick, Bani K

publication date

  • January 2018