Summary of A New Reliable & Parsimonious Learning Strategy Comprising Two Layers Of Gaussian Processes, to Address Inhomogeneous Empirical Correlation Structures, by Gargi Roy et al.
A New Reliable & Parsimonious Learning Strategy Comprising Two Layers of Gaussian Processes, to Address Inhomogeneous Empirical Correlation Structures
by Gargi Roy, Dalia Chakrabarty
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Apr 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 The paper presents a novel approach to modeling functional relationships between variables while addressing inhomogeneities in correlation structures using non-stationary Gaussian Processes (GPs). The authors propose a two-layer GP model, where the outer layer is non-stationary and nests multiple stationary GPs. Each hyperparameter is dependent on sample functions drawn from the outer GP, enabling computation of kernels for every pair of input values. However, this model cannot be implemented directly, so the authors substitute it with a equivalent MCMC-based inference method that averages over different sample functions. The kernel is non-parametric and requires learning only one hyperparameter per layer and dimension. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a new way to understand relationships between things by using special statistical models called Gaussian Processes (GPs). These GPs can handle tricky data with different patterns, which helps us learn more about the relationship. The authors propose a two-step approach: first, they create a complex model that is hard to compute, and then they simplify it to make it workable. This new method only needs to learn a few important details from the data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Hyperparameter * Inference
