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Publication Detail
Learning deep kernels for non-parametric two-sample tests
  • Publication Type:
    Conference
  • Authors:
    Liu F, Xu W, Lu J, Zhang G, Gretton A, Sutherland DJ
  • Publication date:
    18/07/2020
  • Pagination:
    6272, 6282
  • Published proceedings:
    Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Machine Learning, Online, PMLR 119, 2020
  • Volume:
    PartF168147-9
  • ISBN-13:
    9781713821120
  • Status:
    Published
  • Name of conference:
    37th International Conference on Machine Learning
  • Print ISSN:
    2640-3498
Abstract
We propose a class of kernel-based two-sample tests, which aim to determine whether two sets of samples are drawn from the same distribution. Our tests are constructed from kernels parameterized by deep neural nets, trained to maximize test power. These tests adapt to variations in distribution smoothness and shape over space, and are especially suited to high dimensions and complex data. By contrast, the simpler kernels used in prior kernel testing work are spatially homogeneous, and adaptive only in lengthscale. We explain how this scheme includes popular classifier-based two-sample tests as a special case, but improves on them in general. We provide the first proof of consistency for the proposed adaptation method, which applies both to kernels on deep features and to simpler radial basis kernels or multiple kernel learning. In experiments, we establish the superior performance of our deep kernels in hypothesis testing on benchmark and real-world data.
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