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Incorporating Posterior Model Discrepancy into a Hierarchical Framework to Facilitate Out-of-the-Box MCMC Sampling for Geothermal Inverse Problems and Uncertainty Quantification. (arXiv:1810.04350v1 [

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We consider geothermal inverse problems and uncertainty quantification from a Bayesian perspective. Our goal is to make standard, 'out-of-the-box' Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling more feasible for complex simulation models. To do this, we first show how to pose the inverse and prediction problems in a hierarchical Bayesian framework. We then show how to incorporate so-called posterior model approximation error into this hierarchical framework, using a modified form of the Bayesian approximation error (BAE) approach. This enables the use of a 'coarse', approximate model in place of a finer, more expensive model, while also accounting for the additional uncertainty and potential bias that this can introduce. Our method requires only simple probability modelling and only modifies the target posterior - the same standard MCMC sampling algorithm can be used to sample the new target posterior. We show that our approach can achieve significant computational speed-ups on a geothermal 查看全文>>