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A Distance-based Framework for Gaussian Processes over Probability Distributions

Dolgov, Maxim; Hanebeck, Uwe D.

Abstract:

Gaussian processes constitute a very powerful and well-understood method for non-parametric regression and classification. In the classical framework, the training data consists of deterministic vector-valued inputs and the corresponding (noisy) measurements whose joint distribution is assumed to be Gaussian. In many practical applications, however, the inputs are either noisy, i.e., each input is a vector-valued sample from an unknown probability distribution, or the probability distributions are the inputs. In this paper, we address Gaussian process regression with inputs given in form of probability distributions and propose a framework that is based on distances between such inputs. To this end, we review different admissible distance measures and provide a numerical example that demonstrates our framework.


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DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000120226
Veröffentlicht am 18.01.2024
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Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT Institut für Anthropomatik und Robotik (IAR)
Publikationstyp Forschungsbericht/Preprint
Publikationsdatum 24.09.2018
Sprache Englisch
Identifikator KITopen-ID: 1000120226
Umfang 8 S.
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