Hybrid discriminative-generative approach with Gaussian processes

Andrade-Pacheco, Ricardo and Hensman, James and Zwießele, Max and Lawrence, Neil D. (2014) Hybrid discriminative-generative approach with Gaussian processes. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 33. pp. 47-56. ISSN 1938-7228

Abstract

Machine learning practitioners are often faced with a choice between a discriminative and a generative approach to modelling. Here, we present a model based on a hybrid approach that breaks down some of the barriers between the discriminative and generative points of view, allowing continuous dimensionality reduction of hybrid discrete-continuous data, discriminative classification with missing inputs and manifold learning informed by class labels.