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Neil Lawrence

5 accepted papers

2020

Empirical Bayes Transductive Meta-Learning with Synthetic Gradients

ICLR 2020poster

We propose a meta-learning approach that learns from multiple tasks in a transductive setting, by leveraging the unlabeled query set in addition to the support set to generate a more powerful model for each task. To develop our framework, we revisit the empirical Bayes formulation for multi-task le…

Cited by 186SourceScholar
2019

Meta-Surrogate Benchmarking for Hyperparameter Optimization

NeurIPS 2019poster

Despite the recent progress in hyperparameter optimization (HPO), available benchmarks that resemble real-world scenarios consist of a few and very large problem instances that are expensive to solve. This blocks researchers and practitioners no only from systematically running large-scale compariso…

2017

Efficient Modeling of Latent Information in Supervised Learning using Gaussian Processes

NeurIPS 2017poster

Often in machine learning, data are collected as a combination of multiple conditions, e.g., the voice recordings of multiple persons, each labeled with an ID. How could we build a model that captures the latent information related to these conditions and generalize to a new one with few data? We…

Cited by 29SourcePDFScholar
2016

Batch Bayesian Optimization via Local Penalization

AISTATS 2016poster

The popularity of Bayesian optimization methods for efficient exploration of parameter spaces has lead to a series of papers applying Gaussian processes as surrogates in the optimization of functions. However, most proposed approaches only allow the exploration of the parameter space to occur sequen…

Cited by 476SourcePDFScholar