Day 1, April 14 - Posters

Bayesian optimization with non-Gaussian prior

Start Date

14-4-2020 9:00 AM

End Date

14-4-2020 11:00 AM

Publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Place of Publication

Chattanooga (Tenn.)

Abstract

We explore using a Gamma distribution - a maximum entropy distribution - as a prior in a Bayesian optimization problem. We hypothesized that because it modeled strictly positive quantities, it would be a good model for machine learning loss models.

Date

April 2020

Document Type

posters

Language

English

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Bayesian optimization with non-Gaussian prior

We explore using a Gamma distribution - a maximum entropy distribution - as a prior in a Bayesian optimization problem. We hypothesized that because it modeled strictly positive quantities, it would be a good model for machine learning loss models.