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Alamoudi, Emad; Reck, Felipe; Bundgaard, Nils; Graw, Frederik; Brusch, Lutz; Hasenauer, Jan; Schälte, Yannik
arXiv.org, 04/2023Paper, Journal Article
Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) is a widely applicable and popular approach to estimating unknown parameters of mechanistic models. As ABC analyses are computationally expensive, parallelization on high-performance infrastructure is often necessary. However, the existing parallelization strategies leave resources unused at times and thus do not optimally leverage them yet. We present look-ahead scheduling, a wall-time minimizing parallelization strategy for ABC Sequential Monte Carlo algorithms, which utilizes all available resources at practically all times by proactive sampling for prospective tasks. Our strategy can be integrated in e.g. adaptive distance function and summary statistic selection schemes, which is essential in practice. Evaluation of the strategy on different problems and numbers of parallel cores reveals speed-ups of typically 10-20% and up to 50% compared to the best established approach. Thus, the proposed strategy allows to substantially improve the cost and run-time efficiency of ABC methods on high-performance infrastructure.
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