The Doctrine of Bayesian Statistics for Inverse Problems

Imagine you need to navigate through a completely dark cave. A well-known way of achieving this is echolocation, which works by making sounds and listening to how they are reflected back. The problem of determining the geometric shape of a space from a mixture of reflections of emitted sounds, is an example of an inverse problem. In many fields...

Optimal high-dimensional and nonparametric distributed testing under communication constraints

We derive minimax testing errors in a distributed framework where the data is split over multiple machines and their communication to a central machine is limited to b bits. We investigate both the d- and infinite-dimensional signal detection problem under Gaussian white noise. We also derive distributed testing algorithms reaching the...