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Comment author: alex_zag_al 23 October 2014 01:41:15AM *  0 points [-]

Do you know of any cases where this simulation-seeded Gaussian Process was then used as a prior, and updated on empirical data?

Like...

  • uncertain parameters --simulation--> distribution over state

  • noisy observations --standard bayesian update--> refined distribution over state

Cari Kaufman's research profile made me think that's something she was interested in. But I haven't found any publications by her or anyone else that actually do this.

I actually think that I misread her research description, latching on to the one familiar idea.

Comment author: Vaniver 23 October 2014 01:57:29AM *  0 points [-]

Do you know of any cases where this simulation-seeded Gaussian Process was then used as a prior, and updated on empirical data?

None come to mind, sadly. :( (I haven't read through all of his work, though, and he might know someone who took it in that direction.)