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In other FICO Technical Papers, I have shown how to fit Generalized Additive Models (GAM) with shape constraints using quadratic programming applied to B-Spline component functions. In this paper, I extend the method to Robust Least Squares…
The multivariate adaptive regression spline (MARS) approach of Friedman (1991) and its Bayesian counterpart (Francom et al. 2018) are effective approaches for the emulation of computer models. The traditional assumption of Gaussian errors…
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The estimation of functions with varying degrees of smoothness is a challenging problem in the nonparametric function estimation. In this paper, we propose the LABS (L\'{e}vy Adaptive B-Spline regression) model, an extension of the LARK…
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We propose using model reparametrization to improve variational Bayes inference for hierarchical models whose variables can be classified as global (shared across observations) or local (observation specific). Posterior dependence between…
Recently nonparametric functional model with functional responses has been proposed within the functional reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (fRKHS) framework. Motivated by its superior performance and also its limitations, we propose a…
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Gradient boosting algorithms construct a regression predictor using a linear combination of ``base learners''. Boosting also offers an approach to obtaining robust non-parametric regression estimators that are scalable to applications with…
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Scaling studies for industrial search, advertising, and recommendation have largely emphasized enlarging model capacity or refining architectures. Yet in real-world systems, performance is constrained not only by model size but also by the…
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