Asymptotics for a class of parametric martingale posteriors

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Fong, E.; Yiu, A.
• 署名单位: University of Hong Kong; University of Southampton
• 刊物名称: BIOMETRIKA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0006-3444; 1464-3510
• DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asag007
• 发表日期: 2026
• 页码: asag007
• 关键词: Bayesian inference; Central Limit Theorem; Martingale posterior; likelihood

摘要

The martingale posterior framework replaces the elicitation of the likelihood and prior with that of a sequence of one-step-ahead predictive densities for Bayesian inference. Posterior sampling then involves the imputation of unobserved quantities and can then be carried out in an expedient and parallelizable manner using predictive resampling, without requiring Markov chain Monte Carlo. Recent work has investigated the use of plug-in parametric predictive densities, combined with stochastic gradient descent, to specify a parametric martingale posterior. This paper investigates the asymptotic properties of this class of parametric martingale posteriors. In particular, two central limit theorems based on martingale limit theory are introduced and applied. The first is a predictive central limit theorem, which enables a significant acceleration of the predictive resampling scheme through a hybrid sampling algorithm based on a normal approximation. The second is a Bernstein-von Mises result, which is novel for martingale posteriors, and provides methodological guidance on attaining desirable frequentist properties. We demonstrate the utility of the theoretical results through simulations and a real data example.