A survey of Monte Carlo methods for parameter estimation

D Luengo, L Martino, M Bugallo, V Elvira… - EURASIP Journal on …, 2020 - Springer
Statistical signal processing applications usually require the estimation of some parameters
of interest given a set of observed data. These estimates are typically obtained either by …

A review of modern computational algorithms for Bayesian optimal design

EG Ryan, CC Drovandi, JM McGree… - International Statistical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Bayesian experimental design is a fast growing area of research with many real‐world
applications. As computational power has increased over the years, so has the development …

Optimal experimental design: Formulations and computations

X Huan, J Jagalur, Y Marzouk - Acta Numerica, 2024 - cambridge.org
Questions of 'how best to acquire data'are essential to modelling and prediction in the
natural and social sciences, engineering applications, and beyond. Optimal experimental …

Structural damage localization and quantification based on a CEEMDAN Hilbert transform neural network approach: a model steel truss bridge case study

AA Mousavi, C Zhang, SF Masri, G Gholipour - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Vibrations of complex structures such as bridges mostly present nonlinear and non-
stationary behaviors. Recently, one of the most common techniques to analyze the nonlinear …

Deep adaptive design: Amortizing sequential bayesian experimental design

A Foster, DR Ivanova, I Malik… - … conference on machine …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press
Abstract We introduce Deep Adaptive Design (DAD), a method for amortizing the cost of
adaptive Bayesian experimental design that allows experiments to be run in real-time …

Optimizing sequential experimental design with deep reinforcement learning

T Blau, EV Bonilla, I Chades… - … conference on machine …, 2022 - proceedings.mlr.press
Bayesian approaches developed to solve the optimal design of sequential experiments are
mathematically elegant but computationally challenging. Recently, techniques using …

A survey of recent advances in particle filters and remaining challenges for multitarget tracking

X Wang, T Li, S Sun, JM Corchado - Sensors, 2017 - mdpi.com
We review some advances of the particle filtering (PF) algorithm that have been achieved in
the last decade in the context of target tracking, with regard to either a single target or …

An invitation to sequential Monte Carlo samplers

C Dai, J Heng, PE Jacob, N Whiteley - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT Statisticians often use Monte Carlo methods to approximate probability
distributions, primarily with Markov chain Monte Carlo and importance sampling. Sequential …

Bayesian sequential optimal experimental design for nonlinear models using policy gradient reinforcement learning

W Shen, X Huan - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2023 - Elsevier
We present a mathematical framework and computational methods for optimally designing a
finite sequence of experiments. This sequential optimal experimental design (sOED) …

A review of efficient applications of genetic algorithms to improve particle filtering optimization problems

C Kuptametee, ZH Michalopoulou, N Aunsri - Measurement, 2024 - Elsevier
Particle filtering (PF) is a sequential Monte Carlo method that draws sample (particle) values
of state variables of interest to approximate the posterior probability distribution function …