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Alistair Shilton

9 accepted papers

2025

Reproducing Kernel Banach Space Models for Neural Networks with Application to Rademacher Complexity Analysis

NeurIPS 2025poster

This paper explores the use of Hermite transform based reproducing kernel Banach space methods to construct exact or un-approximated models of feedforward neural networks of arbitrary width, depth and topology, including ResNet and Transformers networks, assuming only a feedforward topology, finite…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

Gradient Descent in Neural Networks as Sequential Learning in Reproducing Kernel Banach Space

ICML 2023poster

The study of Neural Tangent Kernels (NTKs) has provided much needed insight into convergence and generalization properties of neural networks in the over-parametrized (wide) limit by approximating the network using a first-order Taylor expansion with respect to its weights in the neighborhood of the…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2022

Human-AI Collaborative Bayesian Optimisation

NeurIPS 2022accept

Abstract Human-AI collaboration looks at harnessing the complementary strengths of both humans and AI. We propose a new method for human-AI collaboration in Bayesian optimisation where the optimum is mainly pursued by the Bayesian optimisation algorithm following complex computation, whilst getting…

Cited by 20SourcePDFScholar
2022

TRF: Learning Kernels with Tuned Random Features

AAAI 2022technical

Random Fourier features (RFF) are a popular set of tools for constructing low-dimensional approximations of translation-invariant kernels, allowing kernel methods to be scaled to big data. Apart from their computational advantages, by working in the spectral domain random Fourier features expose th…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2021

Kernel Functional Optimisation

NeurIPS 2021poster

Traditional methods for kernel selection rely on parametric kernel functions or a combination thereof and although the kernel hyperparameters are tuned, these methods often provide sub-optimal results due to the limitations induced by the parametric forms. In this paper, we propose a novel formulati…

2020

Accelerated Bayesian Optimisation through Weight-Prior Tuning

AISTATS 2020poster

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a widely-used method for optimizing expensive (to evaluate) problems. At the core of most BO methods is the modeling of the objective function using a Gaussian Process (GP) whose covariance is selected from a set of standard covariance functions. From a weight-space v…

2019

Multi-objective Bayesian optimisation with preferences over objectives

NeurIPS 2019poster

We present a multi-objective Bayesian optimisation algorithm that allows the user to express preference-order constraints on the objectives of the type objective A is more important than objective B. These preferences are defined based on the stability of the obtained solutions with respect to pref…

Cited by 76SourcePDFScholar
2018

Exploiting Strategy-Space Diversity for Batch Bayesian Optimization

AISTATS 2018poster

This paper proposes a novel approach to batch Bayesian optimisation using a multi-objective optimisation framework with exploitation and exploration forming two objectives. The key advantage of this approach is that it uses a suite of strategies to balance exploration and exploitation and thus can e…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2017

Regret Bounds for Transfer Learning in Bayesian Optimisation

AISTATS 2017poster

This paper studies the regret bound of two transfer learning algorithms in Bayesian optimisation. The first algorithm models any difference between the source and target functions as a noise process. The second algorithm proposes a new way to model the difference between the source and target as a G…

Cited by 44SourcePDFScholar