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Published June 2014 | Submitted
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Bayesian posterior contraction rates for linear severely ill-posed inverse problems

Abstract

We consider a class of linear ill-posed inverse problems arising from inversion of a compact operator with singular values which decay exponentially to zero. We adopt a Bayesian approach, assuming a Gaussian prior on the unknown function. The observational noise is assumed to be Gaussian; as a consequence the prior is conjugate to the likelihood so that the posterior distribution is also Gaussian. We study Bayesian posterior consistency in the small observational noise limit. We assume that the forward operator and the prior and noise covariance operators commute with one another. We show how, for given smoothness assumptions on the truth, the scale parameter of the prior, which is a constant multiplier of the prior covariance operator, can be adjusted to optimize the rate of posterior contraction to the truth, and we explicitly compute the logarithmic rate.

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© 2013 Walter de Gruyter GmbH. Agapiou and Stuart are supported by ERC and Yuan-Xiang Zhang is supported by China Scholarship Council and the NNSF of China (No. 11171136).

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