arXiv Machine Learning

Gaussian Process Latent Factor Regression for Low-Data, High-Dimensional Output Problems

arXiv:2606. 06576v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In the sciences, regression tasks often require predicting high-dimensional outputs from few training examples.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 13

A Factor Graph Approach to Scalable Multi-Output Gaussian Process Regression

arXiv:2608. 11917v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-output Gaussian process regression scales cubically in the number of observations times outputs, and dense kernel-matrix methods need bespoke handling whenever different outputs are observed at different inputs.

By Wouter W. L. Nuijten, Esther G. van Pelt, Albert Podusenko, \.Ismail \c{S}en\"oz, Wouter M. Kouw
arXiv AI
6d ago

Adaptive multi-resolution Gaussian processes: Scalable exact inference with naturally data-sparse covariance matrices

The paper introduces an adaptive multi‑resolution Gaussian process framework that achieves scalable, exact inference by constructing a naturally data‑sparse covariance matrix using basis functions anchored directly to samples. By shrinking the support domains of these basis functions, the resulting matrix has limited block sizes, ensuring sparsity and enabling efficient computation of its inverse via a sparse Cholesky algorithm. The authors demonstrate that this approach yields exact inference with training cost ≠≠ O(n log^2 n) and prediction cost ≠≠ O(log^d n), while also improving predictive uncertainties through an augmented basis function.

By Yanchuang Cao, Jun Liu, Tengchao Yu, Heng Yong
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

BG4Sea: Biogeochemical Seasonal Forecastability via Progressive Information Scaling

arXiv:2607. 16731v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Marine biogeochemical forecasting is increasingly important for managing marine ecosystems and the carbon cycle, yet global, seasonal forecast products lag far behind physical oceanography, held back by the complexity of the processes involved and by data scarcity.

By Gabriela Martinez Balbontin, Anastase Charantonis, Dominique Bereziat, Stefano Ciavatta
arXiv Machine Learning
4d ago

HALO: Enhancing Time Series Generation via Hyperspherical Latents and Masked AutoregRessive Modeling

HALO introduces a hyperspherical VAE to constrain continuous latent representations to a fixed‑radius shell, stabilizing numerical fluctuations. It then employs a masked autoregressive model that balances parallel decoding with temporal correlation learning, reducing inference steps and improving stability. Experiments show HALO achieves state‑of‑the‑art generation performance with significantly better inference efficiency compared to existing baselines.

By Chunyi Hou, Xiangfei Qiu, Hanyin Cheng, Yutong Li, Bin Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 17

HiLNO: A Hierarchical Latent Neural Operator with Multi-Scale Supervision for PDEs on General Geometries

HiLNO is a hierarchical latent neural operator that builds a fine‑to‑coarse‑to‑fine latent space and incorporates multi‑scale supervision and anisotropic Gaussian attention to preserve spatial information in PDE solutions with multiscale structures. The hierarchy reduces information loss during compression, while multi‑scale supervision aligns intermediate predictions with downsampled targets, and anisotropic attention facilitates feature transfer across scales. Experiments on standard PDE benchmarks and a large‑scale automotive aerodynamics task show that HiLNO achieves competitive accuracy while cutting parameter count by 84.4% and FLOPs by 69.2% compared with LinearNO, and it generalizes effectively to unseen spatial resolutions.

By Zhicheng Hu, Jiacheng Li, Min Yang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 14

Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Bayesian Optimization

The paper investigates nonlinear dimensionality reduction for Bayesian optimisation (BO) by transforming high‑dimensional black‑box optimisation problems into a sequence of low‑dimensional latent‑space BO (LSBO) tasks. It extends earlier linear embedding approaches by using variational autoencoders (VAEs), deep metric loss, and adaptive retraining to better capture nonlinear structure, and couples LSBO with sequential domain reduction (SDR‑LSBO) to progressively narrow search domains. Experiments on GPU‑accelerated BoTorch with Matérn‑5/2 Gaussian‑process surrogates show that VAE‑based LSBO outperforms adaptive linear embeddings, and the authors provide a theoretical analysis of latent‑space error versus representation gap under PAC‑Bayes conditions.

By Luo Long, Coralia Cartis, Paz Fink Shustin