collaborators

6 papers

cs.CL2026

Disentangling Similarity and Relatedness in Topic Models

Hanlin Xiao, Yang Wang, Mauricio A. Álvarez +1

The recent success of large pre-trained language models (PLMs) has motivated their integration into topic modeling. However, PLM-augmented topic models differ from classical co-occ…

cs.LG2026

Transformed Latent Variable Multi-Output Gaussian Processes

Xiaoyu Jiang, Xinxing Shi, Sokratia Georgaka +2

Multi-Output Gaussian Processes (MOGPs) provide a principled probabilistic framework for modelling correlated outputs but face scalability bottlenecks when applied to datasets with…

cs.LG2026

Cross-Granularity Representations for Biological Sequences: Insights from ESM and BiGCARP

Hanlin Xiao, Rainer Breitling, Eriko Takano +1

Recent advances in general-purpose foundation models have stimulated the development of large biological sequence models. While natural language shows symbolic granularity (charact…

cs.LG2025

Neighbour-Driven Gaussian Process Variational Autoencoders for Scalable Structured Latent Modelling

Xinxing Shi, Xiaoyu Jiang, Mauricio A. Álvarez

Gaussian Process (GP) Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) extend standard VAEs by replacing the fully factorised Gaussian prior with a GP prior, thereby capturing richer correlations a…

cs.LG2025

Scalable Multi-Output Gaussian Processes with Stochastic Variational Inference

Xiaoyu Jiang, Sokratia Georgaka, Magnus Rattray +1

The Multi-Output Gaussian Process is is a popular tool for modelling data from multiple sources. A typical choice to build a covariance function for a MOGP is the Linear Model of C…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive RKHS Fourier Features for Compositional Gaussian Process Models

Xinxing Shi, Thomas Baldwin-McDonald, Mauricio A. Álvarez

Deep Gaussian Processes (DGPs) leverage a compositional structure to model non-stationary processes. DGPs typically rely on local inducing point approximations across intermediate…