Wasserstein-Splitting Gaussian Process Regression for Heterogeneous Online Bayesian Inference

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12797v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2021 17:52:46 GMT
• Title: Wasserstein-Splitting Gaussian Process Regression for Heterogeneous Online Bayesian Inference
• Authors: Michael E. Kepler, Alec Koppel, Amrit Singh Bedi, and Daniel J. Stilwell
• Abstract summary: We employ variational free energy approximations of GPs operating in tandem with online expectation propagation steps. We introduce a local splitting step which instantiates a new GP whenever the posterior distribution changes significantly. Over time, this yields an ensemble of sparse GPs which may be updated incrementally.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Gaussian processes (GPs) are a well-known nonparametric Bayesian inference technique, but they suffer from scalability problems for large sample sizes, and their performance can degrade for non-stationary or spatially heterogeneous data. In this work, we seek to overcome these issues through (i) employing variational free energy approximations of GPs operating in tandem with online expectation propagation steps; and (ii) introducing a local splitting step which instantiates a new GP whenever the posterior distribution changes significantly as quantified by the Wasserstein metric over posterior distributions. Over time, then, this yields an ensemble of sparse GPs which may be updated incrementally, and adapts to locality, heterogeneity, and non-stationarity in training data.

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