Quantifying uncertainty in geoacoustic inversion. I. A fast Gibbs sampler approach
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Abstract
This paper develops a new approach to estimating seabed geoacoustic properties and their uncertainties based on a Bayesian formulation of matched-field inversion. In Bayesian inversion, the solution is characterized by its posterior probability density (PPD), which combines prior information about the model with information from an observed data set. To interpret the multi-dimensional PPD requires calculation of its moments, such as the mean, covariance, and marginal distributions, which provide parameter estimates and uncertainties. Computation of these moments involves estimating multi-dimensional integrals of the PPD, which is typically carried out using a sampling procedure. Important goals for an effective Bayesian algorithm are to obtain efficient, unbiased sampling of these moments, and to verify convergence of the sample. This is accomplished here using a Gibbs sampler (GS) approach based on the Metropolis algorithm, which also forms the basis for simulated annealing (SA). Although GS can be computationally slow in its basic form, just as modifications to SA have produced much faster optimization algorithms, the GS is modified here to produce an efficient algorithm referred to as the fast Gibbs sampler (FGS). An automated convergence criterion is employed based on monitoring the difference between two independent FGS samples collected in parallel. Comparison of FGS, GS, and Monte Carlo integration for noisy synthetic benchmark test cases indicates that FGS provides rigorous estimates of PPD moments while requiring orders of magnitude less computation time.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".