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The killer feature of Gaussian processes for me is the fact that they provide a posterior distribution rather than just a maximum likelihood estimate. This let
by CuriouslyC 8y ago
The killer feature of Gaussian processes for me is the fact that they provide a posterior distribution rather than just a maximum likelihood estimate. This lets you incorporate fancy loss functions, and can be useful to optimize data collection in real world cases where collecting data is expensive and time consuming.