Generative and Latent Mean Map Kernels

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2010-05-03

arxiv.org/abs/1005.0188v1

Computer Science

Learning

16 pages, 1 figure, 1 table

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We introduce two kernels that extend the mean map, which embeds probability measures in Hilbert spaces. The generative mean map kernel (GMMK) is a smooth similarity measure between probabilistic models. The latent mean map kernel (LMMK) generalizes the non-iid formulation of Hilbert space embeddings of empirical distributions in order to incorporate latent variable models. When comparing certain classes of distributions, the GMMK exhibits beneficial regularization and generalization properties not shown for previous generative kernels. We present experiments comparing support vector machine performance using the GMMK and LMMK between hidden Markov models to the performance of other methods on discrete and continuous observation sequence data. The results suggest that, in many cases, the GMMK has generalization error competitive with or better than other methods.

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