Variational Gaussian Process Classifiers

David J C MacKay and Mark N Gibbs

Gaussian processes are a promising non-linear interpolation tool \cite{williams:95,williams_rasmussen:96}, but it is not straightforward to solve classification problems with them. In this paper the variational methods of \citeasnoun{jaakkola_jordan:bounds} are applied to Gaussian processes to produce an efficient Bayesian binary classifier.

Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks

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