Uncertainty quantification for sparse spectral variational approximations in Gaussian process regression

12/21/2022
by   Dennis Nieman, et al.
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We investigate the frequentist properties of the variational sparse Gaussian Process regression model. In the theoretical analysis we focus on the variational approach with spectral features as inducing variables. We derive guarantees and limitations for the frequentist coverage of the resulting variational credible sets. We also derive sufficient and necessary lower bounds for the number of inducing variables required to achieve minimax posterior contraction rates. The implications of these results are demonstrated for different choices of priors. In a numerical analysis we consider a wider range of inducing variable methods and observe similar phenomena beyond the scope of our theoretical findings.

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