Statistics – Methodology
Scientific paper
2012-01-26
Statistics
Methodology
18 pages, 7 figures, 1 table
Scientific paper
Data collection at a massive scale is becoming ubiquitous in a wide variety of settings, from vast offline databases to streaming real-time information. Learning algorithms deployed in such contexts must rely on single-pass inference, where the data history is never revisited. In streaming contexts, learning must also be temporally adaptive to remain up-to-date against unforeseen changes in the data generating mechanism. Although rapidly growing, the online Bayesian inference literature remains challenged by massive data and transient, evolving data streams. Non-parametric modelling techniques can prove particularly ill-suited, as the complexity of the model is allowed to increase with the sample size. In this work, we take steps to overcome these challenges by porting standard streaming techniques, like data discarding and downweighting, into a fully Bayesian framework via the use of informative priors and active learning heuristics. We showcase our methods by augmenting a modern non-parametric modelling framework, dynamic trees, and illustrate its performance on a number of practical examples. The end product is a powerful streaming regression and classification tool, whose performance compares favourably to the state-of-the-art.
Anagnostopoulos Christoforos
Gramacy Robert B.
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