Revision 235853956f699c32dcc9ce4c4311724c3f90705a authored by st-- on 15 April 2020, 12:19:00 UTC, committed by GitHub on 15 April 2020, 12:19:00 UTC
Release notes:
- Improve structure of likelihoods subdirectory (#1416)
- Update README.md (#1401) and GPflow 2 upgrade guide (#1414)
- Improved handling of invalid values for constrained Parameters (#1408)
- Improvements on types/function annotations (#1406, #1420)
- Documentation improvements (metalearning with GPs: #1382, coregionalization notebook: #1402, MCMC notebook: #1410, intro to gpflow with tensorflow 2: #1413)
- Minor documentation fixes (#1429, #1430, #1433)
- Fix: move matplotlib import inside ImageToTensorBoard (#1399)
- Fix: tf.function compilation of ndiagquad (#1418)
- Fix: cache tensorboard file writers and re-use them (#1424)
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probability_distributions.py
# Copyright 2017 the GPflow authors.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.

# Eventually, it would be nice to not have to have our own classes for
# proability distributions. The TensorFlow "distributions" framework would
# be a good replacement.


class ProbabilityDistribution:
    """
    This is the base class for a probability distributions,
    over which we take the expectations in the expectations framework.
    """

    pass


class Gaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # [N, D]
        self.cov = cov  # [N, D, D]


class DiagonalGaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # [N, D]
        self.cov = cov  # [N, D]


class MarkovGaussian(ProbabilityDistribution):
    """
    Gaussian distribution with Markov structure.
    Only covariances and covariances between t and t+1 need to be
    parameterised. We use the solution proposed by Carl Rasmussen, i.e. to
    represent
    Var[x_t] = cov[x_t, :, :] * cov[x_t, :, :].T
    Cov[x_t, x_{t+1}] = cov[t, :, :] * cov[t+1, :, :]
    """

    def __init__(self, mu, cov):
        self.mu = mu  # N+[1, D]
        self.cov = cov  # 2 x (N+1)[, D, D]
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