Summary of Universal Functional Regression with Neural Operator Flows, by Yaozhong Shi et al.
Universal Functional Regression with Neural Operator Flows
by Yaozhong Shi, Angela F. Gao, Zachary E. Ross, Kamyar Azizzadenesheli
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a new approach to functional regression called universal functional regression, which enables learning prior distributions over non-Gaussian function spaces that remain mathematically tractable. To achieve this, the authors develop Neural Operator Flows (OpFlow), an infinite-dimensional extension of normalizing flows. OpFlow is an invertible operator that maps the data function space into a Gaussian process, allowing for exact likelihood estimation of functional point evaluations. This approach enables robust and accurate uncertainty quantification via posterior sampling. The authors empirically study the performance of OpFlow on regression and generation tasks with data generated from Gaussian processes with known posterior forms and non-Gaussian processes, as well as real-world earthquake seismograms. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to do functional regression. Functional regression is when you try to predict a whole function instead of just one point. The problem is that usually we can only do this if the functions are Gaussian, which means they follow a special pattern. But what if the functions aren’t Gaussian? That’s where this paper comes in. It introduces a new method called OpFlow, which is like a magic trick that makes it possible to predict non-Gaussian functions too. This method is really good at predicting and also gives us a way to figure out how sure we are about our predictions. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Likelihood * Regression
