The Dagstuhl Seminar on 16481 "New Directions for Learning with Kernels and Gaussian Processes" brought together two principal theoretical camps of the machine learning community at a crucial time for the field. Kernel methods and Gaussian process models together form a significant part of the discipline's foundations, but their prominence is waning while more elaborate but poorly understood hierarchical models are ascendant. In a lively, amiable seminar, the participants re-discovered common conceptual ground (and some continued points of disagreement) and productively discussed how theoretical rigour can stay relevant during a hectic phase for the subject.
@Article{gretton_et_al:DagRep.6.11.142, author = {Gretton, Arthur and Hennig, Philipp and Rasmussen, Carl Edward and Sch\"{o}lkopf, Bernhard}, title = {{New Directions for Learning with Kernels and Gaussian Processes (Dagstuhl Seminar 16481)}}, pages = {142--167}, journal = {Dagstuhl Reports}, ISSN = {2192-5283}, year = {2017}, volume = {6}, number = {11}, editor = {Gretton, Arthur and Hennig, Philipp and Rasmussen, Carl Edward and Sch\"{o}lkopf, Bernhard}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagRep.6.11.142}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-71064}, doi = {10.4230/DagRep.6.11.142}, annote = {Keywords: gaussian processes, kernel methods, machine learning, probabilistic numerics, probabilistic programming} }
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