arXiv Machine Learning

Scalable Gaussian process inference via neural feature maps

arXiv:2605. 10285v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a theoretically grounded Gaussian process framework that leverages neural feature maps to construct expressive kernels.

arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 27

gp2Scale: A Class of Compactly Supported Non-Stationary Kernels and Distributed Computing for Exact Gaussian Processes on 10 Million Data Points

arXiv:2512. 06143v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Despite a large corpus of recent work on scaling up Gaussian processes, a stubborn trade-off between computational speed, prediction and uncertainty quantification accuracy, and customizability persists.

By Marcus M. Noack, Mark D. Risser, Hengrui Luo, Vardaan Tekriwal, Ronald J. Pandolfi
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

Online Adaptive Kernel Mixing for Gaussian Process Decision Making

The paper introduces HACK GPs, a method that treats kernel selection for Gaussian Processes as an online learning problem with expert advice. Each candidate kernel is viewed as a GP expert, and a distribution over these experts is updated online using AdaHedge based on a loss that reflects both function fit and task alignment. Two variants—Mixture of Gaussians and categorical sampling—are presented, with theoretical guarantees that the weight concentrates on the best kernel under a loss‑gap condition, and empirical results show robust performance across Bayesian optimization, level set estimation, and Bayesian active learning compared to standard kernels and simple ensembles.

By Kavin Aravindan, Mani Tej Sriram, Gautam Dasarathy, Tejas Bodas
arXiv AI
Aug 26

Towards Reproducibility in Predictive Process Mining: SPICE -- A Deep Learning Library

The paper introduces SPICE, a Python framework that reimplements three popular deep‑learning methods for Predictive Process Mining (PPM) using PyTorch. It provides a common, highly configurable base to enable reproducible and robust comparison of PPM models, addressing issues of reproducibility, transparency, and usability. The authors benchmark SPICE against the original reported metrics and fair metrics across 11 datasets.

By Oliver Stritzel, Nick H\"uhnerbein, Simon Rauch, Itzel Zarate, Lukas Fleischmann, Moike Buck, Attila Lischka, Christian Frey
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

Learning Kernels by Alignment for Multiclass Bayes Classification

The paper introduces a framework that learns the kernel used in kernel methods through alignment, leveraging the Collaborative Learning and Inference (CLaI) approach. It demonstrates that CLaI can be interpreted as a kernel alignment process and that its inference stage is equivalent to kernel Bayes classification with Parzen-window density estimation. By replacing cosine similarity with a learned Mahalanobis distance, the authors extend CLaI to multiclass classification, achieving higher accuracy, faster convergence, and lower calibration error on datasets such as CIFAR-10, PathMNIST, and SleepEDF, while also showing connections to Gaussian processes and competitive calibration in sepsis prediction.

By Hollan Haule, Alfredo Gonzalez-Sulser, Javier Escudero
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