Dimension adaptability of Gaussian process models with variable selection and projection

Details Dimension adaptability of Gaussian process models with variable selection and projection Dimension adaptability of Gaussian process models with variable selection and projection

2011-12-04

arxiv.org/abs/1112.0716v1

Mathematics

Statistics Theory

14 pages

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It is now known that an extended Gaussian process model equipped with rescaling can adapt to different smoothness levels of a function valued parameter in many nonparametric Bayesian analyses, offering a posterior convergence rate that is optimal (up to logarithmic factors) for the smoothness class the true function belongs to. This optimal rate also depends on the dimension of the function's domain and one could potentially obtain a faster rate of convergence by casting the analysis in a lower dimensional subspace that does not amount to any loss of information about the true function. In general such a subspace is not known a priori but can be explored by equipping the model with variable selection or linear projection. We demonstrate that for nonparametric regression, classification, density estimation and density regression, a rescaled Gaussian process model equipped with variable selection or linear projection offers a posterior convergence rate that is optimal (up to logarithmic factors) for the lowest dimension in which the analysis could be cast without any loss of information about the true function. Theoretical exploration of such dimension reduction features appears novel for Bayesian nonparametric models with or without Gaussian processes.

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