Testing and Learning on Distributions with Symmetric Noise Invariance
Ho Chung Law, Christopher Yau, Dino Sejdinovic
Abstract
Kernel embeddings of distributions and the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD), the resulting distance between distributions, are useful tools for fully nonparametric two-sample testing and learning on distributions. However, it is rarely that all possible differences between samples are of interest -- discovered differences can be due to different types of measurement noise, data collection artefacts or other irrelevant sources of variability. We propose distances between distributions which encode invariance to additive symmetric noise, aimed at testing whether the assumed true underlying processes differ. Moreover, we construct invariant features of distributions, leading to learning algorithms robust to the impairment of the input distributions with symmetric additive noise.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{NIPS2017_67d16d00,
author = {Law, Ho Chung and Yau, Christopher and Sejdinovic, Dino},
booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
editor = {I. Guyon and U. Von Luxburg and S. Bengio and H. Wallach and R. Fergus and S. Vishwanathan and R. Garnett},
pages = {},
publisher = {Curran Associates, Inc.},
title = {Testing and Learning on Distributions with Symmetric Noise Invariance},
url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2017/file/67d16d00201083a2b118dd5128dd6f59-Paper.pdf},
volume = {30},
year = {2017}
}