The paper introduces a method to probabilistically select inducing points in sparse Gaussian processes.
problem The challenge is selecting the optimal number of inducing points in sparse Gaussian processes.
method A point process prior is applied to the inducing points, and the posterior is approximated using stochastic variational inference.
result The model learns which and how many inducing points to use, leading to fewer inducing points being preferred as they become less informative.
New method combines spectral and sparse methods for Gaussian processes.
problem Efficiently fitting Gaussian processes to large datasets.
method Orthogonally decoupled variational Fourier features.
result Competitive performance on synthetic and real-world data.
Sparse Gaussian Processes improve scalability by learning inducing points from data.
problem Scaling issues in Gaussian Processes due to cubic computational cost.
method Amortized learning of inducing points and variational posterior parameters using neural networks.
result Significant reduction in the number of inducing points, improving scalability.
New method optimizes Gaussian process allocation for BO.
problem Existing methods for inducing point allocation in BO hinder performance.
method Proposes a new allocation strategy using quality-diversity decomposition.
result Demonstrates improved BO performance through local high-fidelity modeling.
Sparse GPs improved with nearest neighbor inducing variables.
problem Sparse GPs struggle with large numbers of inducing variables.
method Introduced a hierarchical prior for inducing variables and used nearest neighbor information for sparsity.
result Significant computational gains compared to standard sparse GPs.
New method improves stability of Gaussian process approximations.
problem Numerical instability in Gaussian process computations.
method Cover tree modification for inducing points, alternative sparse approximation.
result Improved stability and predictive performance in spatial tasks.
A new method selects inducing points to optimize high-throughput Bayesian optimisation.
problem Current inducing point selection methods sacrifice high-fidelity modeling of promising regions.
method Information-theoretic criterion to select inducing points maximizing global and maximum value uncertainties.
result Surrogate models support high-precision high-throughput Bayesian optimisation.
VNNGP uses nearest neighbors to approximate GPs, improving scalability and performance.
problem Scalability issues in Gaussian process approximations.
method Sparse precision structure via nearest neighbors, variational framework.
result VNNGP outperforms low-rank methods and is less prone to overfitting.
Paper tightens variational GP approximations for large datasets.
problem Scaling Gaussian processes to large datasets.
method Relaxing the standard assumption about inducing points' posterior matching the prior, leading to a tighter variational approximation.
result The proposed approximation consistently matches or outperforms standard sparse variational GPs while maintaining computational cost.
Sparse Markovian Gaussian processes improve probabilistic model inference for large datasets.
problem Efficient inference for large-scale time series data.
method Combining inducing variables with Kalman filter-like recursions for linear scaling.
result General site-based approach for approximating non-Gaussian likelihoods.
New method DDVI improves posterior inference for deep Gaussian processes.
problem Inference of inducing points in DGPs is challenging and biased.
method DDVI uses denoising diffusion SDE and score matching for posterior approximation.
result Empirically shows DDVI outperforms baseline methods in inducing point inference.
The paper proposes a method to detect credit card fraud using sparse Gaussian approximations.
problem Detecting credit card fraud in financial institutions.
method Sparse Gaussian classification method with pseudo or inducing inputs and different kernels and inducing points.
result The RBF kernel with a higher number of inducing points achieved the best accuracy.
Improved sparse Gaussian processes using structured scaling matrices and Power-EP framework.
problem Scaling Gaussian processes for large datasets.
method Structured diagonal scaling matrix and Power-EP framework.
result Structured approximations improve performance without increasing computational cost.
To answer the existence of optimal swimmer learning/teaching strategies, this work introduces a two-level clustering in order to analyze temporal dynamics of motor learning in breaststroke swimming. Each level have been performed through Sparse Fisher-EM, a unsupervised framework which can be applied efficiently on lar…
Kernel methods on discrete domains have shown great promise for many challenging data types, for instance, biological sequence data and molecular structure data. Scalable kernel methods like Support Vector Machines may offer good predictive performances but do not intrinsically provide uncertainty estimates. In contras…
Sparse Gaussian process hyperparameters optimized using MCMC.
problem Hyperparameter uncertainty leads to biased estimates and underestimation of predictive uncertainty.
method Proposes an MCMC algorithm to sample from the hyperparameter posterior in sparse Gaussian process regression.
result Significantly improves sampling efficiency in the Gaussian likelihood case.
We introduce a new interpretation of sparse variational approximations for Gaussian processes using inducing points, which can lead to more scalable algorithms than previous methods. It is based on decomposing a Gaussian process as a sum of two independent processes: one spanned by a finite basis of inducing points and…
Gaussian Processes (GPs) are powerful kernelized methods for non-parameteric regression used in many applications. However, their use is limited to a few thousand of training samples due to their cubic time complexity. In order to scale GPs to larger datasets, several sparse approximations based on so-called inducing p…
SKI accelerates GP inference with sparse grids to handle higher dimensions.
problem SKI scales poorly in high dimensions due to dense grid size.
method Sparse grids within SKI framework, novel matrix-vector multiplication algorithm.
result SKI can be scaled to higher dimensions while maintaining accuracy.
The variational framework for learning inducing variables (Titsias, 2009a) has had a large impact on the Gaussian process literature. The framework may be interpreted as minimizing a rigorously defined Kullback-Leibler divergence between the approximating and posterior processes. To our knowledge this connection has th…
Stochastic Sparse Subspace Clustering improves subspace clustering by reducing over-segmentation through dropout.
problem Over-segmentation in subspace clustering.
method Introducing dropout regularization to enforce denser connections between points from the same subspace.
result Stochastic Sparse Subspace Clustering effectively handles large datasets and reduces over-segmentation.
Bayesian approach improves performance in Gaussian process models.
problem Scalable posterior estimation in Gaussian process models.
method Revisiting variational inference techniques with Bayesian treatment of inducing variables and hyper-parameters.
result State-of-the-art performance demonstrated across various regression and classification problems.
VAR-GPs solve continual learning by updating posteriors sequentially.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in sequential learning tasks.
method Sparse inducing point approximations and auto-regressive variational distribution.
result VAR-GPs prevent catastrophic forgetting and outperform baselines.
Exact Gaussian Processes for massive datasets using non-stationary sparsity-discovering kernels.
problem High computational and storage costs for exact GPs in large datasets.
method Develop non-stationary kernels that allow the GP to discover sparse structure naturally.
result Exact Gaussian Processes scalable to over 5 million data points.
Improves Gaussian process models for large datasets.
problem Complexity and memory limitations in Gaussian process models.
method Combines variational sparse approximation and state-space formulation.
result Significant computational and memory savings for large datasets.
In this paper, a sparse Markov decision process (MDP) with novel causal sparse Tsallis entropy regularization is proposed.The proposed policy regularization induces a sparse and multi-modal optimal policy distribution of a sparse MDP. The full mathematical analysis of the proposed sparse MDP is provided.We first analyz…
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.
Sparse optimization refers to an optimization problem involving the zero-norm in objective or constraints. In this paper, nonconvex approximation approaches for sparse optimization have been studied with a unifying point of view in DC (Difference of Convex functions) programming framework. Considering a common DC appro…
Gaussian processes (GPs) are flexible models that can capture complex structure in large-scale dataset due to their non-parametric nature. However, the usage of GPs in real-world application is limited due to their high computational cost at inference time. In this paper, we introduce a new framework, \textit{kernel di…
Learning new representations of input observations in machine learning is often tackled using a factorization of the data. For many such problems, including sparse coding and matrix completion, learning these factorizations can be difficult, in terms of efficiency and to guarantee that the solution is a global minimum.…
This paper addresses the problem of sparsity penalized least squares for applications in sparse signal processing, e.g. sparse deconvolution. This paper aims to induce sparsity more strongly than L1 norm regularization, while avoiding non-convex optimization. For this purpose, this paper describes the design and use of…
Gaussian process (GP) models form a core part of probabilistic machine learning. Considerable research effort has been made into attacking three issues with GP models: how to compute efficiently when the number of data is large; how to approximate the posterior when the likelihood is not Gaussian and how to estimate co…
Bayesian approach improves sparse PCE for high-dimensional problems.
problem Sparse PCE struggles with high-dimensional uncertainty and underdetermined situations.
method Joint shrinkage priors and MCMC for sparse PCE with uncertainty estimation.
result Bayesian PCE achieves sparse representations with higher polynomial degrees.
Early alignment in neural networks leads to sparse representations but hinders convergence.
problem The implicit bias of gradient descent during early training phases.
method Quantitative description of early alignment phase in small initialisation, one hidden layer networks.
result Early alignment induces a sparse representation but also hinders convergence to global minima.
Develops SGP-VAE for efficient sparse GP inference in multi-dimensional datasets.
problem Sparse GP approximations and missing data in multi-dimensional spatio-temporal datasets.
method Leverages partial inference networks for sparse GP approximations and amortized variational inference.
result Outperforms multi-output GPs and structured VAEs in various experiments.
Inducing sparseness while training neural networks has been shown to yield models with a lower memory footprint but similar effectiveness to dense models. However, sparseness is typically induced starting from a dense model, and thus this advantage does not hold during training. We propose techniques to enforce sparsen…
Scalable algorithm for sampling Gaussian processes using sparse grids and preconditioners.
problem Generating high-dimensional Gaussian random vectors for GP sampling is computationally challenging.
method Proposes a scalable algorithm using inducing points approximation with sparse grids and additive Schwarz preconditioners.
result Demonstrates the efficacy and accuracy of the proposed method through experiments and comparisons.
We design simple screening tests to automatically discard data samples in empirical risk minimization without losing optimization guarantees. We derive loss functions that produce dual objectives with a sparse solution. We also show how to regularize convex losses to ensure such a dual sparsity-inducing property, and p…
We study the problem of learning high dimensional regression models regularized by a structured-sparsity-inducing penalty that encodes prior structural information on either input or output sides. We consider two widely adopted types of such penalties as our motivating examples: 1) overlapping group lasso penalty, base…
A new method for efficient Gaussian process inference using sparse approximations.
problem Scalable and accurate inference for latent Gaussian processes.
method Variational approximation with sparse inverse Cholesky factors and double Kullback-Leibler minimization.
result The proposed method can achieve highly accurate approximations with polylogarithmic time complexity.
This paper proposes a method to reveal task relationships in multi-task learning models using sparse graphs.
problem Understanding the underlying task relationships in multi-task learning models.
method Proposes a bilevel formulation of multi-task learning that induces sparse graphs.
result The method improves interpretability of multi-task learning models without sacrificing generalization performance.
Sparse Subspace Clustering (SSC) is a popular unsupervised machine learning method for clustering data lying close to an unknown union of low-dimensional linear subspaces; a problem with numerous applications in pattern recognition and computer vision. Even though the behavior of SSC for complete data is by now well-un…
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.
SVGP KAN integrates sparse variational GP with KANs for scalable probabilistic inference.
problem Lack of probabilistic outputs in standard KANs and cubic scaling of Gaussian Process methods.
method Sparse Variational GP-KAN combines KAN topology with sparse variational inference and permutation-based importance analysis.
result Enables probabilistic KANs to handle larger datasets with linear computational complexity.
New sparse GP model learns compositional kernels efficiently.
problem Learning accurate Gaussian Process models with complex kernel structures.
method MultiSVGP model with Horseshoe prior for kernel selection.
result Our model provides better fit and faster computation for large-scale data.
Sparse estimation methods are aimed at using or obtaining parsimonious representations of data or models. They were first dedicated to linear variable selection but numerous extensions have now emerged such as structured sparsity or kernel selection. It turns out that many of the related estimation problems can be cast…
Paper improves robustness of PINNs by smoothing and quantifying uncertainty.
problem PINNs can overfit and converge to local minima due to training data errors.
method Introduces Gaussian Process smoothing and sparse inducing points.
result Recover robust PINN performance against noise and errors.
A method to improve sequential learning by keeping past data errors in check.
problem Challenges in sequential learning with Gaussian processes due to accumulating errors.
method Memory-based dual sparse variational Gaussian processes.
result Improves accuracy in inference and learning for various applications.