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Healing the Relevance Vector Machine through Augmentation

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Quiñonero-Candela,  J       
Rätsch Group, Friedrich Miescher Laboratory, Max Planck Society;

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Rasmussen, C., & Quiñonero-Candela, J. (2005). Healing the Relevance Vector Machine through Augmentation. In S. Dzeroski, L. de Raedt, & S. Wrobel (Eds.), ICML '05: 22nd international conference on Machine learning (pp. 689-696). New York, NY, USA: ACM Press.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0010-5A45-C
Abstract
The Relevance Vector Machine (RVM) is a sparse approximate Bayesian kernel method. It provides full predictive distributions for test cases. However, the predictive uncertainties have the unintuitive property, that emphthey get smaller the further you move away from the training cases. We give a thorough analysis. Inspired by the analogy to non-degenerate Gaussian Processes, we suggest augmentation to solve the problem. The purpose of the resulting model, RVM*, is primarily to corroborate the theoretical and experimental analysis. Although RVM* could be used in practical applications, it is no longer a truly sparse model. Experiments show that sparsity comes at the expense of worse predictive distributions.