Summary of A General Theory For Kernel Packets: From State Space Model to Compactly Supported Basis, by Liang Ding and Rui Tuo
A General Theory for Kernel Packets: from state space model to compactly supported basis
by Liang Ding, Rui Tuo
First submitted to arxiv on: 6 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research paper presents a novel approach to Gaussian process (GP) modeling, introducing the concept of Right Kernel Packet (KP) transformations. The authors show that an m-dimensional state space (SS) model formulation of GP is equivalent to a KP, which enables faster training and prediction times of O(n) for n data points. The idea is extended to backward SS model formulations, leading to Left KPs, and by combining both, the authors demonstrate how a linear combination of covariance functions yields m compactly supported KP functions. This breakthrough improves GP prediction time to O(log n) or O(1), enables broader applications including derivatives and kernel multiplications, and can be generalized to multi-dimensional additive and product kernels for scattered data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand how we can make predictions using Gaussian processes (GPs). The authors have a new way of looking at GPs that makes them faster and more useful. They show that by changing the way we think about GP covariance, we can make predictions much faster – even in just one step! This is important because it means we can use GPs for all sorts of problems that were too hard before. The authors also explain how this new approach can be used to find derivatives and multiply kernels. |
