Support Collapse of Deep Gaussian Processes with Polynomial Kernels for a Wide Regime of Hyperparameters

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Autores principales: Chernobrovkina, Daryna, Grünewälder, Steffen
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author Chernobrovkina, Daryna
Grünewälder, Steffen
author_facet Chernobrovkina, Daryna
Grünewälder, Steffen
contents We analyze the prior that a Deep Gaussian Process with polynomial kernels induces. We observe that, even for relatively small depths, averaging effects occur within such a Deep Gaussian Process and that the prior can be analyzed and approximated effectively by means of the Berry-Esseen Theorem. One of the key findings of this analysis is that, in the absence of careful hyper-parameter tuning, the prior of a Deep Gaussian Process either collapses rapidly towards zero as the depth increases or places negligible mass on low norm functions. This aligns well with experimental findings and mirrors known results for convolution based Deep Gaussian Processes.
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spellingShingle Support Collapse of Deep Gaussian Processes with Polynomial Kernels for a Wide Regime of Hyperparameters
Chernobrovkina, Daryna
Grünewälder, Steffen
Machine Learning
We analyze the prior that a Deep Gaussian Process with polynomial kernels induces. We observe that, even for relatively small depths, averaging effects occur within such a Deep Gaussian Process and that the prior can be analyzed and approximated effectively by means of the Berry-Esseen Theorem. One of the key findings of this analysis is that, in the absence of careful hyper-parameter tuning, the prior of a Deep Gaussian Process either collapses rapidly towards zero as the depth increases or places negligible mass on low norm functions. This aligns well with experimental findings and mirrors known results for convolution based Deep Gaussian Processes.
title Support Collapse of Deep Gaussian Processes with Polynomial Kernels for a Wide Regime of Hyperparameters
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.12266