Title
Deep Gaussian Processes with Importance-Weighted Variational Inference.
Abstract
Deep Gaussian processes (DGPs) can model complex marginal densities as well as complex mappings. Non-Gaussian marginals are essential for modelling real-world data, and can be generated from the DGP by incorporating uncorrelated variables to the model. Previous work on DGP models has introduced noise additively and used variational inference with a combination of sparse Gaussian processes and mean-field Gaussians for the approximate posterior. Additive noise attenuates the signal, and the Gaussian form of variational distribution may lead to an inaccurate posterior. We instead incorporate noisy variables as latent covariates, and propose a novel importance-weighted objective, which leverages analytic results and provides a mechanism to trade off computation for improved accuracy. Our results demonstrate that the importance-weighted objective works well in practice and consistently outperforms classical variational inference, especially for deeper models.
Year
Venue
Field
2019
international conference on machine learning
Pattern recognition,Computer science,Inference,Gaussian process,Artificial intelligence
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1905.05435
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hugh Salimbeni1232.48
Vincent Dutordoir200.68
James Hensman326520.05
Marc Peter Deisenroth4109564.71