Advanced kernels improve Gaussian process accuracy by incorporating domain knowledge.
problem Improving function approximation accuracy in Gaussian processes.
method Advanced kernel designs that enforce specific function properties (symmetry, periodicity) and non-stationarity.
result Advanced kernels significantly enhance function approximation accuracy and relevance.
Improved forecasting of suicide attempts using LSGPs for patients with little data.
problem Challenges in predicting suicide attempts due to their rarity and patient heterogeneity.
method Introduced Latent Similarity Gaussian Processes (LSGPs) to capture patient heterogeneity.
result LSGPs outperform baseline models, even without kernel-design, and offer new insights into patient similarity.
Framework for applying GPs to real-world data with scalability guidelines.
problem Deployment of Gaussian Processes (GPs) is hindered by computational costs and lack of guidelines.
method Proposed a framework for identifying GP suitability and setting up robust models, formalizing decisions of experienced practitioners.
result More accurate results at test time for glacier elevation change case study.
Bayesian optimisation tackles high-dimensional categorical and mixed search spaces.
problem Bayesian optimisation on high-dimensional categorical and mixed search spaces is challenging.
method Combining local optimisation with a tailored kernel design.
result Empirically outperforms current baselines in performance and computational costs.
A new Gaussian process framework uses neural feature maps for scalable, accurate inference.
problem Efficient and accurate Gaussian process inference for diverse data types.
method Neural feature maps to construct expressive kernels, with theoretical guarantees and practical scalability.
result The approach outperforms existing methods in accuracy and efficiency across various data modalities.
New bounds quantify estimation error in kernel-based system identification with unknown hyperparameters.
problem Inaccurate error bounds for kernel-based system identification with unknown hyperparameters.
method Construct a high-probability set for true hyperparameters from marginal likelihood, then find worst-case posterior covariance.
result Proposed bounds contain true model with high probability and verified in simulations.
Recent results on optimization and generalization properties of neural networks showed that in a simple two-layer network, the alignment of the labels to the eigenvectors of the corresponding Gram matrix determines the convergence of the optimization during training. Such analyses also provide upper bounds on the gener…
Efficient optimisation of black-box problems that comprise both continuous and categorical inputs is important, yet poses significant challenges. We propose a new approach, Continuous and Categorical Bayesian Optimisation (CoCaBO), which combines the strengths of multi-armed bandits and Bayesian optimisation to select …
Usually, complex-valued RKHS are presented as an straightforward application of the real-valued case. In this paper we prove that this procedure yields a limited solution for regression. We show that another kernel, here denoted as pseudo kernel, is needed to learn any function in complex-valued fields. Accordingly, we…
Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) are multi-layer hierarchical generalisations of Gaussian processes (GPs) and are formally equivalent to neural networks with multiple, infinitely wide hidden layers. DGPs are probabilistic and non-parametric and as such are arguably more flexible, have a greater capacity to generalise, an…
HGConv uses HRR to efficiently detect malware, outperforming existing methods.
problem Efficiently detecting malware with long sequences.
method Holographic Global Convolutional Networks (HGConv) utilizing Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on malware benchmarks.
A new framework generates large hierarchical search spaces for neural architectures.
problem Discovering neural architectures from simple blocks is hard.
method Context-free grammars for a unified, scalable search space.
result Efficiently searches over complete architectures, outperforming existing methods.
Linearized neural networks provide a fast and interpretable way to adapt models to new settings.
problem Difficulty in understanding and adapting inductive biases of trained neural networks.
method Linearization of neural networks and embedding these biases into Gaussian processes through a kernel designed from the Jacobian.
result Domain adaptation becomes interpretable posterior inference with analytic and scalable computational speed-ups.
New kernel handles irregularly-spaced multivariate time series.
problem No kernel exists for irregularly-spaced multivariate time series.
method Built a series kernel from vector kernels, ensuring it's PSD.
result Validated the series kernel on multiple datasets and time series classification.
Develops nonstationary MOGP kernels for better performance.
problem Limited applicability of existing MOGP kernels for nonstationary data.
method Harmonizable spectral mixture kernels for nonstationary MOGP.
result Automatic identification of nonstationary behavior in data.
Kernel measures similarity of nonlinear causal structures in heterogeneous populations.
problem Learning causal structure in populations with diverse underlying structures.
method Distance covariance-based kernel for measuring similarity of causal structures.
result Kernel enables clustering of homogeneous subpopulations for causal structure learning.
We propose a novel adaptive kernel based regression method for complex-valued signals: the generalized complex-valued kernel least-mean-square (gCKLMS). We borrow from the new results on widely linear reproducing kernel Hilbert space (WL-RKHS) for nonlinear regression and complex-valued signals, recently proposed by th…
Scalable Gaussian Process Operator tackles high-dimensional PDEs.
problem Scaling Gaussian Process Operators to high-dimensional, data-intensive regimes.
method Nearest-neighbor-based local kernel approximations, sparse kernel approximation, structured Kronecker factorizations, operator-aware kernel structures, task-informed mean functions.
result Consistently achieves high accuracy across varying discretization scales.
Improves Bayesian optimization efficiency for mixed variable spaces.
problem Boosting sample efficiency in Bayesian optimization for mixed variable spaces.
method Proposes frequency modulated (FM) kernels to model complex dependencies across different types of variables.
result BO-FM outperforms competitors in various optimization problems.
G-FuNK learns solutions for nonlinear PDEs on multiple domains and parameters.
problem Predicting time-dependent dynamics of complex systems governed by nonlinear PDEs with varying parameters and domains.
method Graph Fourier Neural Kernels combining domain-adapted and transferable components for non-diffusive and diffusive terms.
result G-FuNK achieves low relative errors on unseen domains and fiber fields, significantly accelerating predictions.
Objective Function Mismatch (OFM) occurs when the optimization of one objective has a negative impact on the optimization of another objective. In this work we study OFM in deep clustering, and find that the popular autoencoder-based approach to deep clustering can lead to both reduced clustering performance, and a sig…
Gaussian processes (GP) for machine learning have been studied systematically over the past two decades and they are by now widely used in a number of diverse applications. However, GP kernel design and the associated hyper-parameter optimization are still hard and to a large extend open problems. In this paper, we con…
The Fredholm integral equation of the first kind improves solutions for ill-posed supervised learning problems with limited data.
problem Ill-posed supervised learning problems with insufficient data.
method Using the Fredholm integral equation of the first kind (FIFK) with semi-supervised assumptions and MSDF methods.
result Improved accuracy and stability in solutions for ill-posed problems.