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A Sky Illuminance Location Tracker
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Optimization strategy improvements #10

Open khufkens opened 7 months ago

khufkens commented 7 months ago

See conversation here:

https://github.com/florianhartig/BayesianTools/issues/258

khufkens commented 7 months ago

https://florianhartig.github.io/BayesianTools/articles/BayesianTools.html#reference-on-creating-priors

See prior hand-off

khufkens commented 1 month ago

Pasting in Florian's response for reference

Hello Koen,

sorry that it took me so long to answer.

Regarding the prior: can't you just write in the prior: if not on land set likelihood -Inf or subtract a certain amount from the log likelihood (if you don't want to impose hard constraints)?

I also saw that you compared MCMC (DEzs) with an SMC - this makes sense, just wanted to note that there was an SMC in BT, but not a very good one, but we have worked on a more sophisticated SMC in

Speich, M., Dormann, C. F., & Hartig, F. (2021). Sequential Monte-Carlo algorithms for Bayesian model calibration–A review and method comparison✰. Ecological Modelling, 455, 109608.

The code for this SMC is still in the development branch, I still have to merge with the main branch. I thought this could be possibly of interest.

Best
Florian