The Gaussian process density sampler

Ryan Prescott Adams, Iain Murray, David J.C. MacKay

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Abstract

We present the Gaussian Process Density Sampler (GPDS), an exchangeable generative model for use in nonparametric Bayesian density estimation. Samples drawn from the GPDS are consistent with exact, independent samples from a fixed density function that is a transformation of a function drawn from a Gaussian process prior. Our formulation allows us to infer an unknown density from data using Markov chain Monte Carlo, which gives samples from the posterior distribution over density functions and from the predictive distribution on data space. We can also infer the hyperparameters of the Gaussian process. We compare this density modeling technique to several existing techniques on a toy problem and a skullreconstruction task.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference
PublisherNeural Information Processing Systems
Pages9-16
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9781605609492
StatePublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
Event22nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2008 - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Duration: Dec 8 2008Dec 11 2008

Publication series

NameAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21 - Proceedings of the 2008 Conference

Other

Other22nd Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2008
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver, BC
Period12/8/0812/11/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems

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