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stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Kernel Regression with Infinite-Width Neural Networks on Millions of Examples

Ben Adlam, Jaehoon Lee, Shreyas Padhy +2

Neural kernels have drastically increased performance on diverse and nonstandard data modalities but require significantly more compute, which previously limited their application…

stat.ML2020★ 3 cited

Exploring the Uncertainty Properties of Neural Networks' Implicit Priors in the Infinite-Width Limit

Ben Adlam, Jaehoon Lee, Lechao Xiao +2

Modern deep learning models have achieved great success in predictive accuracy for many data modalities. However, their application to many real-world tasks is restricted by poor u…

stat.ML2020★ 11 cited

Cold Posteriors and Aleatoric Uncertainty

Ben Adlam, Jasper Snoek, Samuel L. Smith

Recent work has observed that one can outperform exact inference in Bayesian neural networks by tuning the "temperature" of the posterior on a validation set (the "cold posterior"…

stat.ML2020★ 33 cited

How Good is the Bayes Posterior in Deep Neural Networks Really?

Florian Wenzel, Kevin Roth, Bastiaan S. Veeling +7

During the past five years the Bayesian deep learning community has developed increasingly accurate and efficient approximate inference procedures that allow for Bayesian inference…

stat.ML2019★ 8 cited

Likelihood Ratios for Out-of-Distribution Detection

Jie Ren, Peter J. Liu, Emily Fertig +5

Discriminative neural networks offer little or no performance guarantees when deployed on data not generated by the same process as the training distribution. On such out-of-distri…

stat.ML2019★ 924 cited

Can You Trust Your Model's Uncertainty? Evaluating Predictive Uncertainty Under Dataset Shift

Yaniv Ovadia, Emily Fertig, Jie Ren +6

Modern machine learning methods including deep learning have achieved great success in predictive accuracy for supervised learning tasks, but may still fall short in giving useful…

stat.ML2019★ 2 cited

DPPNet: Approximating Determinantal Point Processes with Deep Networks

Zelda Mariet, Yaniv Ovadia, Jasper Snoek

Determinantal Point Processes (DPPs) provide an elegant and versatile way to sample sets of items that balance the point-wise quality with the set-wise diversity of selected items.…

stat.ML2018★ 14 cited

Deep Bayesian Bandits Showdown: An Empirical Comparison of Bayesian Deep Networks for Thompson Sampling

Carlos Riquelme, George Tucker, Jasper Snoek

Recent advances in deep reinforcement learning have made significant strides in performance on applications such as Go and Atari games. However, developing practical methods to bal…

stat.ML2018★ 147 cited

Learning Latent Permutations with Gumbel-Sinkhorn Networks

Gonzalo Mena, David Belanger, Scott Linderman +1

Permutations and matchings are core building blocks in a variety of latent variable models, as they allow us to align, canonicalize, and sort data. Learning in such models is diffi…

stat.ML2015★ 184 cited

Spectral Representations for Convolutional Neural Networks

Oren Rippel, Jasper Snoek, Ryan P. Adams

Discrete Fourier transforms provide a significant speedup in the computation of convolutions in deep learning. In this work, we demonstrate that, beyond its advantages for efficien…

stat.ML2015★ 438 cited

Scalable Bayesian Optimization Using Deep Neural Networks

Jasper Snoek, Oren Rippel, Kevin Swersky +6

Bayesian optimization is an effective methodology for the global optimization of functions with expensive evaluations. It relies on querying a distribution over functions defined b…

stat.ML2014★ 53 cited

Raiders of the Lost Architecture: Kernels for Bayesian Optimization in Conditional Parameter Spaces

Kevin Swersky, David Duvenaud, Jasper Snoek +2

In practical Bayesian optimization, we must often search over structures with differing numbers of parameters. For instance, we may wish to search over neural network architectures…

stat.ML2014★ 116 cited

Freeze-Thaw Bayesian Optimization

Kevin Swersky, Jasper Snoek, Ryan Prescott Adams

In this paper we develop a dynamic form of Bayesian optimization for machine learning models with the goal of rapidly finding good hyperparameter settings. Our method uses the part…

stat.ML2014★ 291 cited

Bayesian Optimization with Unknown Constraints

Michael A. Gelbart, Jasper Snoek, Ryan P. Adams

Recent work on Bayesian optimization has shown its effectiveness in global optimization of difficult black-box objective functions. Many real-world optimization problems of interes…

stat.ML2014★ 95 cited

Input Warping for Bayesian Optimization of Non-stationary Functions

Jasper Snoek, Kevin Swersky, Richard S. Zemel +1

Bayesian optimization has proven to be a highly effective methodology for the global optimization of unknown, expensive and multimodal functions. The ability to accurately model di…

stat.ML2012★ 5.7k cited

Practical Bayesian Optimization of Machine Learning Algorithms

Jasper Snoek, Hugo Larochelle, Ryan P. Adams

Machine learning algorithms frequently require careful tuning of model hyperparameters, regularization terms, and optimization parameters. Unfortunately, this tuning is often a "bl…

stat.ML2011★ 12 cited

On Nonparametric Guidance for Learning Autoencoder Representations

Jasper Snoek, Ryan Prescott Adams, Hugo Larochelle

Unsupervised discovery of latent representations, in addition to being useful for density modeling, visualisation and exploratory data analysis, is also increasingly important for…