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Hybrid Discriminative-Generative Approaches with Gaussian Processes
Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, PMLR 33:47-56, 2014.
Abstract
Machine learning practitioners are often faced with a choice between a discriminative and a generative approach to modelling. Here, we present a model based on a hybrid approach that breaks down some of the barriers between the discriminative and generative points of view, allowing continuous dimensionality reduction of hybrid discrete-continous data, discriminative classification with missing inputs and manifold learning informed by class labels.