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Poster
Tue Dec 08 09:00 PM -- 11:00 PM (PST) @ Poster Session 2 #666
Revisiting the Sample Complexity of Sparse Spectrum Approximation of Gaussian Processes
Minh Hoang · Nghia Hoang · Hai Pham · David Woodruff
[ Paper ]

We introduce a new scalable approximation for Gaussian processes with provable guarantees which holds simultaneously over its entire parameter space. Our approximation is obtained from an improved sample complexity analysis for sparse spectrum Gaussian processes (SSGPs). In particular, our analysis shows that under a certain data disentangling condition, an SSGP's prediction and model evidence (for training) can well-approximate those of a full GP with low sample complexity. We also develop a new auto-encoding algorithm that finds a latent space to disentangle latent input coordinates into well-separated clusters, which is amenable to our sample complexity analysis. We validate our proposed method on several benchmarks with promising results supporting our theoretical analysis.