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20152024
most citedGPU-accelerated Gibbs sampling: a case study of the Horseshoe Probit model

36 citations · 163 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

cs.LG2024

The GeometricKernels Package: Heat and Matérn Kernels for Geometric Learning on Manifolds, Meshes, and Graphs

Peter Mostowsky, Vincent Dutordoir, Iskander Azangulov +6

Kernels are a fundamental technical primitive in machine learning. In recent years, kernel-based methods such as Gaussian processes are becoming increasingly important in applicati…

stat.ML2023★ 1 cited

Posterior Contraction Rates for Matérn Gaussian Processes on Riemannian Manifolds

Paul Rosa, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Alexander Terenin +1

Gaussian processes are used in many machine learning applications that rely on uncertainty quantification. Recently, computational tools for working with these models in geometric…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

Stochastic Gradient Descent for Gaussian Processes Done Right

Jihao Andreas Lin, Shreyas Padhy, Javier Antorán +5

As is well known, both sampling from the posterior and computing the mean of the posterior in Gaussian process regression reduces to solving a large linear system of equations. We…

cs.CL2023

The Cambridge Law Corpus: A Dataset for Legal AI Research

Andreas Östling, Holli Sargeant, Huiyuan Xie +5

We introduce the Cambridge Law Corpus (CLC), a dataset for legal AI research. It consists of over 250 000 court cases from the UK. Most cases are from the 21st century, but the cor…

cs.RO2023

A Unifying Variational Framework for Gaussian Process Motion Planning

Lucas Cosier, Rares Iordan, Sicelukwanda Zwane +5

To control how a robot moves, motion planning algorithms must compute paths in high-dimensional state spaces while accounting for physical constraints related to motors and joints,…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Sampling from Gaussian Process Posteriors using Stochastic Gradient Descent

Jihao Andreas Lin, Javier Antorán, Shreyas Padhy +3

Gaussian processes are a powerful framework for quantifying uncertainty and for sequential decision-making but are limited by the requirement of solving linear systems. In general,…

stat.ME2023★ 1 cited

Stationary Kernels and Gaussian Processes on Lie Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces II: non-compact symmetric spaces

Iskander Azangulov, Andrei Smolensky, Alexander Terenin +1

Gaussian processes are arguably the most important class of spatiotemporal models within machine learning. They encode prior information about the modeled function and can be used…

stat.ML2022★ 1 cited

Numerically Stable Sparse Gaussian Processes via Minimum Separation using Cover Trees

Alexander Terenin, David R. Burt, Artem Artemev +4

Gaussian processes are frequently deployed as part of larger machine learning and decision-making systems, for instance in geospatial modeling, Bayesian optimization, or in latent…

stat.ME2022★ 1 cited

Stationary Kernels and Gaussian Processes on Lie Groups and their Homogeneous Spaces I: the compact case

Iskander Azangulov, Andrei Smolensky, Alexander Terenin +1

Gaussian processes are arguably the most important class of spatiotemporal models within machine learning. They encode prior information about the modeled function and can be used…

stat.ML2022

Gaussian Processes and Statistical Decision-making in Non-Euclidean Spaces

Alexander Terenin

Bayesian learning using Gaussian processes provides a foundational framework for making decisions in a manner that balances what is known with what could be learned by gathering da…

stat.ML2021

Vector-valued Gaussian Processes on Riemannian Manifolds via Gauge Independent Projected Kernels

Michael Hutchinson, Alexander Terenin, Viacheslav Borovitskiy +3

Gaussian processes are machine learning models capable of learning unknown functions in a way that represents uncertainty, thereby facilitating construction of optimal decision-mak…

cs.RO2021★ 5 cited

Geometry-aware Bayesian Optimization in Robotics using Riemannian Matérn Kernels

Noémie Jaquier, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Andrei Smolensky +3

Bayesian optimization is a data-efficient technique which can be used for control parameter tuning, parametric policy adaptation, and structure design in robotics. Many of these pr…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

Learning Contact Dynamics using Physically Structured Neural Networks

Andreas Hochlehnert, Alexander Terenin, Steindór Sæmundsson +1

Learning physically structured representations of dynamical systems that include contact between different objects is an important problem for learning-based approaches in robotics…

stat.ML2021★ 1 cited

Sliced Multi-Marginal Optimal Transport

Samuel Cohen, Alexander Terenin, Yannik Pitcan +3

Multi-marginal optimal transport enables one to compare multiple probability measures, which increasingly finds application in multi-task learning problems. One practical limitatio…

stat.ML2020★ 4 cited

Pathwise Conditioning of Gaussian Processes

James T. Wilson, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Alexander Terenin +2

As Gaussian processes are used to answer increasingly complex questions, analytic solutions become scarcer and scarcer. Monte Carlo methods act as a convenient bridge for connectin…

stat.ML2020★ 2 cited

Matérn Gaussian Processes on Graphs

Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Iskander Azangulov, Alexander Terenin +3

Gaussian processes are a versatile framework for learning unknown functions in a manner that permits one to utilize prior information about their properties. Although many differen…

cs.LG2020

Aligning Time Series on Incomparable Spaces

Samuel Cohen, Giulia Luise, Alexander Terenin +2

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a useful method for aligning, comparing and combining time series, but it requires them to live in comparable spaces. In this work, we consider a sett…

stat.ML2020★ 25 cited

Matérn Gaussian processes on Riemannian manifolds

Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Alexander Terenin, Peter Mostowsky +1

Gaussian processes are an effective model class for learning unknown functions, particularly in settings where accurately representing predictive uncertainty is of key importance.…

stat.ML2020★ 12 cited

Efficiently Sampling Functions from Gaussian Process Posteriors

James T. Wilson, Viacheslav Borovitskiy, Alexander Terenin +2

Gaussian processes are the gold standard for many real-world modeling problems, especially in cases where a model's success hinges upon its ability to faithfully represent predicti…

stat.ML2019★ 6 cited

Variational Integrator Networks for Physically Structured Embeddings

Steindor Saemundsson, Alexander Terenin, Katja Hofmann +1

Learning workable representations of dynamical systems is becoming an increasingly important problem in a number of application areas. By leveraging recent work connecting deep neu…

stat.ML2019

Sparse Parallel Training of Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Topic Models

Alexander Terenin, Måns Magnusson, Leif Jonsson

To scale non-parametric extensions of probabilistic topic models such as Latent Dirichlet allocation to larger data sets, practitioners rely increasingly on parallel and distribute…

stat.CO2018

A Piecewise Deterministic Markov Process via swaps in hyperspherical coordinates

Alexander Terenin, Daniel Thorngren

Recently, a class of stochastic processes known as piecewise deterministic Markov processes has been used to define continuous-time Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms with a numbe…

stat.CO2017

Comment: A brief survey of the current state of play for Bayesian computation in data science at Big-Data scale

David Draper, Alexander Terenin

We wish to contribute to the discussion of "Comparing Consensus Monte Carlo Strategies for Distributed Bayesian Computation" by offering our views on the current best methods for B…

stat.ML2017★ 1 cited

Techniques for proving Asynchronous Convergence results for Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods

Alexander Terenin, Eric P. Xing

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods such as Gibbs sampling are finding widespread use in applied statistics and machine learning. These often lead to difficult computational pr…