4 papers
Knowledge Gradient for Preference Learning
Kaiwen Wu, Jacob R. Gardner
The knowledge gradient is a popular acquisition function in Bayesian optimization (BO) for optimizing black-box objectives with noisy function evaluations. Many practical settings,…
Nearly Dimension-Independent Convergence of Mean-Field Black-Box Variational Inference
Kyurae Kim, Yi-An Ma, Trevor Campbell +1
We prove that, given a mean-field location-scale variational family, black-box variational inference (BBVI) with the reparametrization gradient converges at a rate that is nearly i…
Tuning Sequential Monte Carlo Samplers via Greedy Incremental Divergence Minimization
Kyurae Kim, Zuheng Xu, Jacob R. Gardner +1
The performance of sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) samplers heavily depends on the tuning of the Markov kernels used in the path proposal. For SMC samplers with unadjusted Markov kern…
Computation-Aware Gaussian Processes: Model Selection And Linear-Time Inference
Jonathan Wenger, Kaiwen Wu, Philipp Hennig +3
Model selection in Gaussian processes scales prohibitively with the size of the training dataset, both in time and memory. While many approximations exist, all incur inevitable app…