Efficient Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling with Sparse Gaussian Process Approximations
Sparse approximations to Bayesian inference for nonparametric Gaussian Process models scale linearly in the number of training points, allowing for the application of powerful kernel-based models to large datasets. We present a general framework based on the informative vector machine (IVM) (Lawrence et.al., 2002) and show how the complete Bayesian task of inference and learning of free hyperparameters can be performed in a practically efficient manner. Our framework allows for arbitrary likelihood and kernel functions, so that a large number of elementary models can be treated in a unified way. We present a range of experiments for our method applied to binary classification and regression tasks. Models based on a single latent function can be combined in order to address more complicated setups. We demonstrate this approach for a multi-way classification model.
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