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Parallel Sequential Monte Carlo for Efficient Density Combination: The DeCo MATLAB Toolbox

Casarin, Roberto, Grassi, Stefano, Ravazzolo, Francesco, Van Dijk, Herman K. (2015) Parallel Sequential Monte Carlo for Efficient Density Combination: The DeCo MATLAB Toolbox. Journal of Statistical Software, . ISSN 1548-7660. (doi:10.18637/jss.v068.i03) (KAR id:49293)

Abstract

This paper presents the Matlab package DeCo (Density Combination) which is based on the paper by Billio et al. (2013) where a constructive Bayesian approach is presented for combining predictive densities originating from different models or other sources of information. The combination weights are time-varying and may depend on past predictive forecasting performances and other learning mechanisms. The core algorithm is the function DeCo which applies banks of parallel Sequential Monte Carlo algorithms to filter the time-varying combination weights. The DeCo procedure has been implemented both for standard CPU computing and for Graphical Process Unit (GPU) parallel computing. For the GPU implementation we use the Matlab parallel computing toolbox and show how to use General Purposes GPU computing almost effortless. This GPU implementation comes with a speed up of the execution time up to seventy times compared to a standard CPU Matlab implementation on a multicore CPU. We show the use of the package and the computational gain of the GPU version, through some simulation experiments and empirical applications

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.18637/jss.v068.i03
Subjects: H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Economics
Depositing User: Stefano Grassi
Date Deposited: 09 Jul 2015 14:17 UTC
Last Modified: 10 Dec 2022 10:45 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/49293 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Grassi, Stefano.

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