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The celebrated Bernstein von-Mises theorem ensures that credible regions from Bayesian posterior are well-calibrated when the model is correctly-specified, in the frequentist sense that their coverage probabilities tend to the nominal values as data accrue. However, this conventional Bayesian framework is known to lack robustness when the model is misspecified or only partly specified, such as in quantile regression, risk minimization based supervised/unsupervised learning and robust estimation. To overcome this difficulty, we propose a new Bayesian inferential approach that substitutes the (misspecified or partly specified) likelihoods with proper exponentially tilted empirical likelihoods plus a regularization term. Our surrogate empirical likelihood is carefully constructed by using the first order optimality condition of the empirical risk minimization as the moment condition. We show that the Bayesian posterior obtained by combining this surrogate empirical likelihood and the prior is asymptotically close to a normal distribution centering at the empirical risk minimizer with covariance matrix taking an appropriate sandwiched form. Consequently, the resulting Bayesian credible

Author

Tang, Rong; Yang, Yun

Published

2021

Language

EN