Summary of Efficient Two-stage Gaussian Process Regression Via Automatic Kernel Search and Subsampling, by Shifan Zhao and Jiaying Lu and Ji Yang (carl) and Edmond Chow and Yuanzhe Xi
Efficient Two-Stage Gaussian Process Regression Via Automatic Kernel Search and Subsampling
by Shifan Zhao, Jiaying Lu, Ji Yang, Edmond Chow, Yuanzhe Xi
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Probability (math.PR); 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 proposes a framework for handling misspecifications in Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) models used for prediction tasks requiring uncertainty measures. The framework consists of a two-stage GPR approach that separates mean prediction from uncertainty quantification to prevent mean misspecification, as well as an automatic kernel search algorithm to address kernel function misspecification. Additionally, the paper introduces a subsampling-based warm-start strategy for hyperparameter initialization to improve efficiency and avoid hyperparameter misspecification. The authors evaluate their methods on real-world datasets, including UCI benchmarks and a safety-critical medical case study, demonstrating their robustness and precision. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps us better understand how to use Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) for making predictions when we’re not sure about the outcome. GPR is like a special kind of math formula that tries to guess what will happen next based on some data. But sometimes this formula doesn’t work well if we don’t set it up just right. This paper shows how to make the formula more reliable by breaking it down into two parts and using different ways to figure out the best settings. They also tested their ideas with real-world examples, like predicting medical outcomes, and showed that they work pretty well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Hyperparameter » Precision » Regression
