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Fast sampling with Gaussian scale-mixture priors in high-dimensional regression

15 Jun 2015arXiv:1506.04778links table onlyarchive 2025-07-28

Anirban Bhattacharya, Antik Chakraborty, Bani K. Mallick

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We propose an efficient way to sample from a class of structured multivariate Gaussian distributions which routinely arise as conditional posteriors of model parameters that are assigned a conditionally Gaussian prior. The proposed algorithm only requires matrix operations in the form of matrix multiplications and linear system solutions. We exhibit that the computational complexity of the proposed algorithm grows linearly with the dimension unlike existing algorithms relying on Cholesky factorizations with cubic orders of complexity. The algorithm should be broadly applicable in settings where Gaussian scale mixture priors are used on high dimensional model parameters. We provide an illustration through posterior sampling in a high dimensional regression setting with a horseshoe prior on the vector of regression coefficients.

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