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most citedApproximate Inference for Fully Bayesian Gaussian Process Regression

23 citations · 49 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

astro-ph.GA2025

Shared Stochastic Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models: A Multi-modal Generative Model for Quasar Spectra

Vidhi Lalchand, Anna-Christina Eilers

This work proposes a scalable probabilistic latent variable model based on Gaussian processes (Lawrence, 2004) in the context of multiple observation spaces. We focus on an applica…

q-bio.QM2024

Permutation invariant multi-output Gaussian Processes for drug combination prediction in cancer

Leiv Rønneberg, Vidhi Lalchand, Paul D. W. Kirk

Dose-response prediction in cancer is an active application field in machine learning. Using large libraries of \textit{in-vitro} drug sensitivity screens, the goal is to develop a…

stat.ML2024

Scalable Amortized GPLVMs for Single Cell Transcriptomics Data

Sarah Zhao, Aditya Ravuri, Vidhi Lalchand +1

Dimensionality reduction is crucial for analyzing large-scale single-cell RNA-seq data. Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models (GPLVMs) offer an interpretable dimensionality reduc…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Dimensionality Reduction as Probabilistic Inference

Aditya Ravuri, Francisco Vargas, Vidhi Lalchand +1

Dimensionality reduction (DR) algorithms compress high-dimensional data into a lower dimensional representation while preserving important features of the data. DR is a critical st…

stat.ML2022★ 2 cited

Sparse Gaussian Process Hyperparameters: Optimize or Integrate?

Vidhi Lalchand, Wessel P. Bruinsma, David R. Burt +1

The kernel function and its hyperparameters are the central model selection choice in a Gaussian proces (Rasmussen and Williams, 2006). Typically, the hyperparameters of the kernel…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Modelling Technical and Biological Effects in scRNA-seq data with Scalable GPLVMs

Vidhi Lalchand, Aditya Ravuri, Emma Dann +6

Single-cell RNA-seq datasets are growing in size and complexity, enabling the study of cellular composition changes in various biological/clinical contexts. Scalable dimensionality…

cs.LG2022★ 9 cited

Kernel Learning for Explainable Climate Science

Vidhi Lalchand, Kenza Tazi, Talay M. Cheema +2

The Upper Indus Basin, Himalayas provides water for 270 million people and countless ecosystems. However, precipitation, a key component to hydrological modelling, is poorly unders…

cs.LG2022★ 2 cited

Generalised Gaussian Process Latent Variable Models (GPLVM) with Stochastic Variational Inference

Vidhi Lalchand, Aditya Ravuri, Neil D. Lawrence

Gaussian process latent variable models (GPLVM) are a flexible and non-linear approach to dimensionality reduction, extending classical Gaussian processes to an unsupervised learni…

stat.ML2021

Kernel Identification Through Transformers

Fergus Simpson, Ian Davies, Vidhi Lalchand +3

Kernel selection plays a central role in determining the performance of Gaussian Process (GP) models, as the chosen kernel determines both the inductive biases and prior support of…

stat.ML2020★ 4 cited

Marginalised Gaussian Processes with Nested Sampling

Fergus Simpson, Vidhi Lalchand, Carl Edward Rasmussen

Gaussian Process (GPs) models are a rich distribution over functions with inductive biases controlled by a kernel function. Learning occurs through the optimisation of kernel hyper…

stat.ML2020

A meta-algorithm for classification using random recursive tree ensembles: A high energy physics application

Vidhi Lalchand

The aim of this work is to propose a meta-algorithm for automatic classification in the presence of discrete binary classes. Classifier learning in the presence of overlapping clas…

stat.ML2020★ 5 cited

Extracting more from boosted decision trees: A high energy physics case study

Vidhi Lalchand

Particle identification is one of the core tasks in the data analysis pipeline at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Statistically, this entails the identification of rare signal eve…

stat.ML2019★ 23 cited

Approximate Inference for Fully Bayesian Gaussian Process Regression

Vidhi Lalchand, Carl Edward Rasmussen

Learning in Gaussian Process models occurs through the adaptation of hyperparameters of the mean and the covariance function. The classical approach entails maximizing the marginal…

stat.ML2018

A Fast and Greedy Subset-of-Data (SoD) Scheme for Sparsification in Gaussian processes

Vidhi Lalchand, A. C. Faul

In their standard form Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a powerful non-parametric framework for regression and classificaton tasks. Their one limiting property is their $\mathcal{O…