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Bayesian Predictive Inference Beyond Martingales
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arXiv:2507.21874v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: There is growing interest in the so-called Bayesian Predictive Inference approach, which enables Bayesian inference without specifying a likelihood function or prior distribution and without resorting to MCMC methods. Instead, only a sequence of predictive distributions for the observations is required, and inference on the unknown estimand can be performed, cheaply in parallel, using bootstrap-type schemes. Understanding which classes of predictive distributions can be used within this framework, is still a key open question. We relax commonly used probabilistic assumptions on the observations, namely exchangeability and conditionally identical distribution, and on their predictive distributions, which are measure-valued martingales, by introducing the new class of Almost Conditionally Identically Distributed (a.c.i.d.) random variables. This class assumes that the predictive distributions are measure-valued almost supermartingales, and is parametrized by a sequence of parameters $(\xi_{n})_{n\geq 0}$, which regulate the decay of conditional dependence among future observations. Under mild summability assumptions on $(\xi_{n})_{n\geq 0}$, the resulting sequence of observations is shown to be asymptotically exchangeable, hence amenable to Bayesian Predictive Inference techniques. A.c.i.d. random variables arise naturally in recursive algorithms, and include classic approaches in Statistics and Learning Theory, such as kernel estimators, and more novel ones, such as the parametric Bayesian bootstrap.
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