BSU Seminar: "Robust and conjugate Gaussian processes"

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• François-Xavier Briol, University College London
• Tuesday 11 November 2025, 14:00-15:00
• Large Downstairs Teaching Room, East Forvie Building, Forvie Site Robinson Way Cambridge CB2 0SR..

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This will be a free hybrid seminar. To register to attend remotely, please click here:https://cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/oURXKjAISECZrOvFPRw0Mw

To enable closed form conditioning, a common assumption in Gaussian process (GP) regression is independent and identically distributed Gaussian observation noise. This strong and simplistic assumption is often violated in practice, which leads to unreliable inferences and uncertainty quantification. Unfortunately, existing methods for robust GP regression break closed-form conditioning, which makes them less attractive to practitioners and significantly more computationally expensive. In this talk, I will discuss a recent line of work which has led to provably robust and conjugate Gaussian process (RCGP) regression at virtually no additional computational cost using generalised Bayesian inference. I will illustrate the desirable properties of RCG Ps for problems ranging from Bayesian optimisation to sparse variational Gaussian process regression, spatio-temporal modelling, and multi-output regression. The latter will be illustrated in the context of cancer research, where we use RCG Ps to perform robust modelling of the viability of cancer cells to varying doses of drugs.

This talk is part of the MRC Biostatistics Unit Seminars series.

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