Variational Inference for Gaussian Process Modulated Poisson Processes

@InProceedings{pmlr-v37-lloyd15,
  title = 	 {Variational Inference for Gaussian Process Modulated Poisson Processes},
  author = 	 {Lloyd, Chris and Gunter, Tom and Osborne, Michael and Roberts, Stephen},
  booktitle = 	 {Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Machine Learning},
  pages = 	 {1814--1822},
  year = 	 {2015},
  editor = 	 {Bach, Francis and Blei, David},
  volume = 	 {37},
  series = 	 {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  address = 	 {Lille, France},
  month = 	 {07--09 Jul},
  publisher =    {PMLR},
  pdf = 	 {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/lloyd15.pdf},
  url = 	 {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/lloyd15.html},
  abstract = 	 {We present the first fully variational Bayesian inference scheme for continuous Gaussian-process-modulated Poisson processes. Such point processes are used in a variety of domains, including neuroscience, geo-statistics and astronomy, but their use is hindered by the computational cost of existing inference schemes. Our scheme: requires no discretisation of the domain; scales linearly in the number of observed events; and is many orders of magnitude faster than previous sampling based approaches. The resulting algorithm is shown to outperform standard methods on synthetic examples, coal mining disaster data and in the prediction of Malaria incidences in Kenya.}
}