Semi-supervised Gaussian process latent variable model with pairwise constraints

Xiumei Wang, Xinbo Gao*, Yuan Yuan, Dacheng Tao, Jie Li

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

In machine learning, Gaussian process latent variable model (GP-LVM) has been extensively applied in the field of unsupervised dimensionality reduction. When some supervised information, e.g., pairwise constraints or labels of the data, is available, the traditional GP-LVM cannot directly utilize such supervised information to improve the performance of dimensionality reduction. In this case, it is necessary to modify the traditional GP-LVM to make it capable of handing the supervised or semi-supervised learning tasks. For this purpose, we propose a new semi-supervised GP-LVM framework under the pairwise constraints. Through transferring the pairwise constraints in the observed space to the latent space, the constrained priori information on the latent variables can be obtained. Under this constrained priori, the latent variables are optimized by the maximum a posteriori (MAP) algorithm. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated with experiments on a variety of data sets.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2186-2195
Number of pages10
JournalNeurocomputing
Volume73
Issue number10-12
Early online date25 Mar 2010
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2010

Bibliographical note

Subspace Learning / Selected papers from the European Symposium on Time Series Prediction

Keywords

  • dimensionality reduction
  • Gaussian process latent variable model
  • pairwise constraints
  • semi-supervised learning

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