2 papers
stat.ML2017
Lost Relatives of the Gumbel Trick
Matej Balog, Nilesh Tripuraneni, Zoubin Ghahramani +1
The Gumbel trick is a method to sample from a discrete probability distribution, or to estimate its normalizing partition function. The method relies on repeatedly applying a rando…
stat.ML2016
The Mondrian Kernel
Matej Balog, Balaji Lakshminarayanan, Zoubin Ghahramani +2
We introduce the Mondrian kernel, a fast random feature approximation to the Laplace kernel. It is suitable for both batch and online learning, and admits a fast kernel-width-selec…