Prediction is zero which is incorrect

[rsparapa]

Hi Jingyu:

From this program, all posterior samples are zero including sigma.

library(XBART)

f = function(x)
    10*sin(pi*x[ , 1]*x[ , 2]) + 5*x[ , 3]*x[ , 4]^2 + 20*x[ , 5]

N = 10000
sigma = 1.0 ##y = f(x) + sigma*z where z~N(0, 1)
P = 25       ##number of covariates
B=8

V = diag(P)
V[5, 6] = 0.8
V[6, 5] = 0.8
L <- chol(V)
set.seed(12)
x.train=matrix(rnorm(N*P), N, P) %*% L
dimnames(x.train)[[2]] <- paste0('x', 1:P)
y.train=(f(x.train)+sigma*rnorm(N))

H=20
x=seq(-3, 3, length.out=H+1)[-(H+1)]
x.test=matrix(0, nrow=H, ncol=P)
x.test[ , 5]=x

##(L=0.25*(log(N)^(log(log(N)))))

post = XBART.CLT(cbind(y.train), x.train, x.test,
                 num_trees=50, num_sweeps=40,
                 burnin=15)
post$yhat.test=post$yhats_test
##post$yhats_test=NULL
post$yhat.test.mean=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, mean)
post$yhat.test.025=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, quantile, probs=0.025)
post$yhat.test.975=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, quantile, probs=0.975)

plot(x, f(x.test), col='blue', type='l', ylab='f(x)')
lines(x, post$yhat.test.mean)
dev.copy2pdf(file='bigdata.pdf')    

The R output is as follows.

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> setwd('/home/rsparapa/git/XBART/demo')
options(width=78, length=99999)
> library(XBART)
> f = function(x)
+     10*sin(pi*x[ , 1]*x[ , 2]) + 5*x[ , 3]*x[ , 4]^2 + 20*x[ , 5]
> N = 10000
> sigma = 1.0 ##y = f(x) + sigma*z where z~N(0, 1)
> P = 25       ##number of covariates
> B=8
> V = diag(P)
> V[5, 6] = 0.8
> V[6, 5] = 0.8
> L <- chol(V)
> set.seed(12)
> x.train=matrix(rnorm(N*P), N, P) %*% L
> dimnames(x.train)[[2]] <- paste0('x', 1:P)
> y.train=(f(x.train)+sigma*rnorm(N))
> H=20
> x=seq(-3, 3, length.out=H+1)[-(H+1)]
> x.test=matrix(0, nrow=H, ncol=P)
> x.test[ , 5]=x
> ##(L=0.25*(log(N)^(log(log(N)))))
> 
> post = XBART.CLT(cbind(y.train), x.train, x.test,
+                  num_trees=50, num_sweeps=40,
+                  burnin=15)
tau = 1/num_trees, default value. 
mtry = p, use all variables. 
> post$yhat.test=post$yhats_test
> ##post$yhats_test=NULL
> post$yhat.test.mean=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, mean)
> post$yhat.test.025=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, quantile, probs=0.025)
> post$yhat.test.975=apply(post$yhat.test, 1, quantile, probs=0.975)
> plot(x, f(x.test), col='blue', type='l', ylab='f(x)')
> lines(x, post$yhat.test.mean)
> dev.copy2pdf(file='bigdata.pdf')
X11cairo 
       2 
> library(help=XBART)

		Information on package ‘XBART’

Description:

Package:            XBART
Type:               Package
Title:              XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression
                    Trees
Version:            0.2
Date:               2019-09-5
Author:             Jingyu He, Saar Yalov, P. Richard Hahn, Lee
                    Reeves
Maintainer:         Jingyu He <[email protected]>
Description:        A highly efficient prediction algorithm based on
                    trees.
License:            Apache License (== 2.0)
Imports:            Rcpp (>= 0.12.13)
LinkingTo:          Rcpp, RcppArmadillo
NeedsCompilation:   yes
Packaged:           2020-05-20 21:08:35 UTC; rsparapa
Built:              R 3.5.2; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu; 2020-05-20 21:08:48
                    UTC; unix

Index:

XBART                   XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression
                        Trees
XBART-package           XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression
                        Trees
XBART.CLT               XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression
                        Trees
XBART.Probit            XBART: Accelerated Bayesian Additive Regression
                        Trees

> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.2 (2018-12-20)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Matrix products: default
BLAS: /usr/lib64/libblas.so.3.4.2
LAPACK: /usr/lib64/liblapack.so.3.4.2

locale:
 [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
 [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8    
 [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8   
 [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
 [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] XBART_0.2

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.5.2 tools_3.5.2    Rcpp_1.0.4    
> 

[rsparapa]

Are you planning to respond to these at some point? It is almost 6 months later.