Borovitskiy, V;
Terenin, A;
Mostowsky, P;
Deisenroth, MP;
(2020)
Matern Gaussian processes on Riemannian manifolds.
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Proceedings of the Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems.
: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press.
(In press).
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Abstract
Gaussian processes are an effective model class for learning unknown functions, particularly in settings where accurately representing predictive uncertainty is of key importance. Motivated by applications in the physical sciences, the widelyused Matern class of Gaussian processes has recently been generalized to model ´ functions whose domains are Riemannian manifolds, by re-expressing said processes as solutions of stochastic partial differential equations. In this work, we propose techniques for computing the kernels of these processes via spectral theory of the Laplace–Beltrami operator in a fully constructive manner, thereby allowing them to be trained via standard scalable techniques such as inducing point methods. We also extend the generalization from the Matern to the widely-used squared ´ exponential Gaussian process. By allowing Riemannian Matern Gaussian pro- ´ cesses to be trained using well-understood techniques, our work enables their use in mini-batch, online, and non-conjugate settings, and makes them more accessible to machine learning practitioners.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Matern Gaussian processes on Riemannian manifolds |
Event: | Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://papers.nips.cc/ |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10111978 |
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