Variational Gaussian process classifiers

  • Authors:
  • M. N. Gibbs;D. J.C. Mackay

  • Affiliations:
  • Cavendish Lab., Cambridge Univ., UK;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Gaussian processes are a promising nonlinear regression tool, but it is not straightforward to solve classification problems with them. In the paper the variational methods of Jaakkola and Jordan (2000) are applied to Gaussian processes to produce an efficient Bayesian binary classifier.