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arxiv: 1302.4922 · v4 · pith:3ONNCYUWnew · submitted 2013-02-20 · 📊 stat.ML · cs.LG· stat.ME

Structure Discovery in Nonparametric Regression through Compositional Kernel Search

classification 📊 stat.ML cs.LGstat.ME
keywords kernelstructuresdiscoverykernelsmethodnonparametricregressionsearch
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Despite its importance, choosing the structural form of the kernel in nonparametric regression remains a black art. We define a space of kernel structures which are built compositionally by adding and multiplying a small number of base kernels. We present a method for searching over this space of structures which mirrors the scientific discovery process. The learned structures can often decompose functions into interpretable components and enable long-range extrapolation on time-series datasets. Our structure search method outperforms many widely used kernels and kernel combination methods on a variety of prediction tasks.

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