Year
2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering
Abstract
Gaussian processes, which are distributions over functions, are powerful nonparametric tools for the two major machine learning tasks: regression and classification. Both tasks are concerned with learning input-output mappings from example input-output pairs. In Gaussian process (GP) regression and classification, such mappings are modeled by Gaussian processes. In GP regression, the likelihood is Gaussian for continuous outputs, and hence closed-form solutions for prediction and model selection can be obtained. In GP classification, the likelihood is non-Gaussian for discrete/categorical outputs, and hence closed-form solutions are not available, and approximate inference methods must be resorted.
Recommended Citation
Nguyen, Thi Nhat Anh, Scalable Hierarchical Gaussian Process Models for Regression and Pattern Classification, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2019. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/549
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