UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
             COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM

                            presents

     "Consistent Distribution Regression via Mean Embedding"
                        Dr. Zoltan Szabo

            (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit,
                   University College London)

                    5 March 2014 (Wednesday)
                          1 pm -2 pm

                  Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                       Seminar Room C152

                  Everyone is Welcome to Attend

                  Refreshments will be available
Abstract:


In a standard regression model we need to predict a real-valued response
based on a vector input. Recently, there has been a significant interest
in extending the prediction problem from finite-dimensional Euclidean
input spaces to other domains such as distributions. In my talk I am going
to present a general, consistent and at the same time computationally
very simple approach to solve the corresponding distribution regression
task for the case when we have only samples from the distributions using
mean embeddings.  I also demonstrate the efficiency of our method on (i)
entropy and skewness estimation of distributions, and (ii) on aerosol
prediction based on satellite images.

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