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This work explores variably scaled kernels to improve non-stationary Gaussian processes.

problem Limited ability of stationary kernels to represent heterogeneous correlation structures.
method Introduces variably scaled kernels to modify correlation structures explicitly.
result Improved reconstruction accuracy and better uncertainty estimates for non-stationary data.

tvGP-VAE models tensor-valued latent variables with Gaussian processes for better data structure representation.

problem Agnostic latent variables in VAEs ignore data structure correlations.
method Proposes tensor-variate Gaussian process prior for variational autoencoder.
result Explicitly modeling correlation structures improves model performance in reconstruction.

In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by some causal structure. This corresponds to a family of graphical models known as the structural equation model with latent variables. While …

2014-08-09abs ↗pdf ↗

In a variety of disciplines such as social sciences, psychology, medicine and economics, the recorded data are considered to be noisy measurements of latent variables connected by some causal structure. This corresponds to a family of graphical models known as the structural equation model with latent variables. While …

2010-02-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves new concentration inequalities for sub-gaussian and sub-exponential variables.

problem Understanding functions of independent random variables better.
method Sub-gaussian and sub-exponential conditions, Rademacher complexities, Lipschitz function classes.
result Extension of Rademacher complexities to unbounded sub-exponential distributions.

Many inference problems involving questions of optimality ask for the maximum or the minimum of a finite set of unknown quantities. This technical report derives the first two posterior moments of the maximum of two correlated Gaussian variables and the first two posterior moments of the two generating variables (corre…

2009-10-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Method identifies latent variables from high-dimensional data with piecewise affine mixing.

problem Identifying latent variables from high-dimensional observations with dependencies and piecewise affine transformations.
method Proposes a two-stage method with sparsity and Gaussianity regularization.
result Effectively recovers ground-truth latent variables from synthetic and image data.

The paper reviews identifiability in linear and nonlinear models, from Gaussian to non-Gaussian.

problem Identifiability issues in latent-variable and structural-equation models, especially in nonlinear cases.
method Review of identifiability theory for linear and nonlinear models, including factor analysis and structural equation models.
result Even nonparametric nonlinear models can be estimated with additional assumptions.

The paper develops a test for independence of selected Gaussian variables after thresholding correlations.

problem Testing independence of selected Gaussian variables after thresholding correlations.
method The approach involves conditioning on the selection event and using a new characterization of the conditioning event in terms of canonical correlation.
result The proposed test has higher power than a naive approach that ignores selection effects.

Bayesian non-linear latent variable modeling for complex data.

problem Inference for GPLVMs is computationally limited and often leads to overfitting or underestimates uncertainty.
method Approximate Gaussian process mappings with random Fourier features for MCMC inference.
result Generalized RFLVMs perform well on various data types and applications.

Graphical models are commonly used tools for modeling multivariate random variables. While there exist many convenient multivariate distributions such as Gaussian distribution for continuous data, mixed data with the presence of discrete variables or a combination of both continuous and discrete variables poses new cha…

2014-04-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Improves Bayesian optimisation for engineering design problems with many variables.

problem Efficiently searching for global minima in high-dimensional design spaces.
method Integrates input and output data to identify a reduced latent subspace using probabilistic partial least squares.
result Significant improvements in convergence to the global minimum compared to existing methods.

Given a Gaussian Markov random field, we consider the problem of selecting a subset of variables to observe which minimizes the total expected squared prediction error of the unobserved variables. We first show that finding an exact solution is NP-hard even for a restricted class of Gaussian Markov random fields, calle…

2012-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Proposes a method to combine datasets with missing values using Gaussian process latent variables.

problem Combining datasets with missing values under non-Missing at Random (NMAR) missingness.
method Gaussian process latent variable model for non-MAR missing data.
result Valid estimates are obtained using the proposed method, while existing methods provide severely biased estimates.

We introduce stochastic variational inference for Gaussian process models. This enables the application of Gaussian process (GP) models to data sets containing millions of data points. We show how GPs can be vari- ationally decomposed to depend on a set of globally relevant inducing variables which factorize the model …

2013-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Develops a new method for nonlinear dimension reduction using random features.

problem Statistical challenges in generalizing Gaussian process-based latent variable models to non-Gaussian data.
method Random feature latent variable models (RFLVMs) that approximate nonlinear relationships with linear functions of random features.
result RFLVMs produce comparable results to state-of-the-art methods on various data types.

We introduce the truncated Gaussian graphical model (TGGM) as a novel framework for designing statistical models for nonlinear learning. A TGGM is a Gaussian graphical model (GGM) with a subset of variables truncated to be nonnegative. The truncated variables are assumed latent and integrated out to induce a marginal m…

2016-06-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Extracts invariant features to predict Y without confounding by Z, using conditional independence and optimal transport.

problem Extracting invariant features to predict Y without confounding by Z, a response variable influenced by unknown confounders Z.
method Develops a methodology penalizing statistical dependence between feature and confounders conditioned on Y, using the Optimal Transport Barycenter Problem.
result The method extracts invariant features in the Gaussian case, equivalent to penalizing dependence between feature and conditional random variable Z_Y.

A new method combines Gaussian graphical models for better distributed Gaussian process predictions.

problem Poor results from traditional DGP due to violated conditional independence assumption.
method Proposes using Gaussian graphical models to aggregate local predictions from subsets of data.
result Our method outperforms other state-of-the-art DGP approaches on both synthetic and real datasets.

Designs efficient algorithms to maximize the expectation of Gaussian random variables.

problem Maximizing the expectation of the supremum of Gaussian random variables.
method Polynomial time approximation scheme and O(logn)O(\log n) approximation algorithm for general m>1m>1.
result Characterizes optimal variance allocation and provides approximation algorithms.

Ising models describe the joint probability distribution of a vector of binary feature variables. Typically, not all the variables interact with each other and one is interested in learning the presumably sparse network structure of the interacting variables. However, in the presence of latent variables, the convention…

2019-01-28abs ↗pdf ↗

We introduce Network Maximal Correlation (NMC) as a multivariate measure of nonlinear association among random variables. NMC is defined via an optimization that infers transformations of variables by maximizing aggregate inner products between transformed variables. For finite discrete and jointly Gaussian random vari…

2016-06-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Bayesian method models binary response and covariates for two groups, estimating causal relationships.

problem Estimating causal relationships between binary response and covariates in observational data.
method Gaussian DAG-probit model with MCMC sampling for posterior distribution estimation.
result Validated method on simulated and real datasets, showing value of grouping variable in causality.

New method detects causal relationships from noisy measurements.

problem Discover causal relationships from noisy, imperfect measurements.
method Transformed Independent Noise (TIN) condition and ordered group decomposition.
result Identifies causal graph structure without over-complete ICA.

New method speeds up sparse Gaussian processes for large datasets.

problem Efficiently modeling large datasets with many inducing variables.
method Projecting a GP onto B-spline basis functions for sparse linear algebra.
result Efficiently models fast-varying spatial phenomena with tens of thousands of inducing variables.

A fast and scalable method for variable selection in high-dimensional Gaussian processes.

problem Inefficient variable selection in high-dimensional Gaussian processes.
method Developed a fast and scalable variational inference algorithm for spike and slab Gaussian processes.
result Consistently outperforms vanilla and sparse variational GPs while retaining similar runtimes.

Algorithm estimates common mean from Gaussian variables with unknown variances.

problem Estimating common mean from Gaussian variables with different unknown variances.
method Intuitive and efficient algorithm using Subset-of-Signals model as benchmark.
result Improved estimation error by polynomial factors compared to previous work.

Study on conditioning Gaussian measures on nonlinear observations, including representer theorem and mode estimation.

problem Conditioning Gaussian measures on nonlinear observations in Bayesian inference and machine learning.
method Representer theorem, novel mode definition, maximum a posteriori estimation, Laplace approximation.
result Identification of infinite-dimensional Gaussian and finite-dimensional non-Gaussian components in conditioned measures.

Enhances topology optimization with multiclass microstructures using latent variable Gaussian process.

problem Lack of an inherent ordering or distance measure between different classes of microstructures.
method Extended latent-variable Gaussian process (LVGP) models to multi-response LVGP (MR-LVGP) models for metamaterials.
result Improved performance through consistent load-transfer paths for micro- and macro-structures.

Computation of moments of transformed random variables is a problem appearing in many engineering applications. The current methods for moment transformation are mostly based on the classical quadrature rules which cannot account for the approximation errors. Our aim is to design a method for moment transformation for …

2017-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes uncertainty quantification in sparse Gaussian process regression with a Brownian motion prior.

problem Analyzing uncertainty in sparse Gaussian process regression with a Brownian motion prior.
method Theoretical guarantees and limitations for pointwise credible sets are derived for a rescaled Brownian motion prior with a sparse variational Gaussian process method.
result Theoretical characterization of asymptotic frequentist coverage for credible sets, distinguishing conservative and overconfident cases.

LVM-GP solves PDEs with uncertainty using latent variables and Gaussian processes.

problem Uncertainty quantification in PDE solutions with noisy data.
method Combines latent variable model and Gaussian process for uncertainty-aware prediction.
result Efficiently captures functional dependencies and robust uncertainty quantification.