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Stacking for Non-mixing Bayesian ComputationsStacking for Non-mixing Bayesian Computations:The Curse and Blessing of Multimodal PosteriorsYuling InstituteNew York, NY 10010, USAAki of Computer Science, Aalto University00076 Aalto, FinlandAndrew of Statistics and of Political Science, Columbia UniversityNew York, NY 10027, USAA bstractWhen working with multimodal Bayesian posterior distributions, markov chain MonteCarlo (MCMC) algorithms have difficulty moving between modes, and default variationalor mode-based approximate inferences will understate posterior uncertainty. And, even ifthe most important modes can be found, it is difficult to evaluate their relative weightsin the posterior.

Keywords: Bayesian stacking, Markov chain Monte Carlo, model misspeci cation, multimodal posterior, parallel computation, postprocessing. 1. Introduction Bayesian computation becomes di cult when posterior distributions are multimodal or more generally metastable, that is, with high-probability regions separated by regions of low probability.

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