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Abstract:
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Shrinkage prior becomes more and more popular in Bayesian modeling for high dimensional sparse problems due to its computational efficiency. Recent works show that a polynomially decaying prior leads to satisfactory posterior asymptotics under regression models. In the literature, statisticians have investigated how the global shrinkage parameter, i.e., the scale parameter, in a heavy tail prior affects the posterior contraction. In this work, we explore how the shape of the prior, or more specifically, the polynomial order of the prior tail affects the posterior, and establish Bayesian sharp minimaxity.
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