Posterior Gaussian process samples by updating prior samples

Matheron’s other weird trick

December 3, 2020 — September 12, 2024

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Can we find a transformation that will turn a Gaussian process prior sample into a Gaussian process posterior sample. A special trick where we do GP regression by GP simulation.

The main tool is an old insight made useful for modern problems in J. T. Wilson et al. (2020) (brusque) and J. T. Wilson et al. (2021) (deep). Actioned in Ritter et al. (2021) to condition probabilistic neural nets somehow.

1 Matheron updates for Gaussian RVs

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We start by examining a slightly different way of defining a Gaussian RV (J. T. Wilson et al. 2021), starting from the recipe for sampling:

A random vector \(\boldsymbol{x}=\left(x_{1}, \ldots, x_{n}\right) \in \mathbb{R}^{n}\) is said to be Gaussian if there exists a matrix \(\mathbf{L}\) and vector \(\boldsymbol{\mu}\) such that \[ \boldsymbol{x} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \boldsymbol{\mu}+\mathbf{L} \boldsymbol{\zeta} \quad \boldsymbol{\zeta} \sim \mathcal{N}(\mathbf{0}, \mathbf{I}) \] where \(\mathcal{N}(\mathbf{0}, \mathbf{I})\) is known as the standard version of a (multivariate) normal distribution, which is defined through its density.

This is the location-scale form of a Gaussian RV, as opposed to the canonical form which we use in Gaussian Belief Propagation. In location-scale form, a non-degenerate Gaussian RV’s distribution is given (uniquely) by its mean \(\boldsymbol{\mu}=\mathbb{E}(\boldsymbol{x})\) and its covariance \(\boldsymbol{\Sigma}=\mathbb{E}\left[(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{\mu})(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{\mu})^{\top}\right] .\) In this notation the density, if defined, is \[ p(\boldsymbol{x})=\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{x} ; \boldsymbol{\mu}, \boldsymbol{\Sigma})=\frac{1}{\sqrt{|2 \pi \boldsymbol{\Sigma}|}} \exp \left(-\frac{1}{2}(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{\mu})^{\top} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{x}-\boldsymbol{\mu})\right). \]

Since \(\zeta\) has identity covariance, any matrix square root of \(\boldsymbol{\Sigma}\), such as the Cholesky factor \(\mathbf{L}\) with \(\boldsymbol{\Sigma}=\mathbf{L L}^{\top}\), may be used to draw \(\boldsymbol{x}=\boldsymbol{\mu}+\mathbf{L} \boldsymbol{\zeta}.\)

tl;dr we can think about drawing any Gaussian RV as transforming a standard Gaussian. So much is basic entry-level stuff. What might a rule which updates a Gaussian prior into a data-conditioned posterior look like? Like this!

We define \(\cov(a,b)=\Sigma_{a,b}\) as the covariance between two random variables (J. T. Wilson et al. 2021):

Matheron’s Update Rule: Let \(\boldsymbol{a}\) and \(\boldsymbol{b}\) be jointly Gaussian, centered random variables. Then the random variable \(\boldsymbol{a}\) conditional on \(\boldsymbol{b}=\boldsymbol{\beta}\) may be expressed as \[ (\boldsymbol{a} \mid \boldsymbol{b}=\boldsymbol{\beta}) \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \boldsymbol{a}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}}{\boldsymbol{\Sigma}}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{\beta}-\boldsymbol{b}) \] Proof: Comparing the mean and covariance on both sides immediately affirms the result \[ \begin{aligned} \mathbb{E}\left(\boldsymbol{a}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{\beta}-\boldsymbol{b})\right) & =\boldsymbol{\mu}_{\boldsymbol{a}}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{\beta}-\boldsymbol{\mu}_{\boldsymbol{b}}\right) \\ & =\mathbb{E}(\boldsymbol{a} \mid \boldsymbol{b}=\boldsymbol{\beta}) \end{aligned} \] \[ \begin{aligned} \operatorname{Cov}\left(\boldsymbol{a}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1}(\boldsymbol{\beta}-\boldsymbol{b})\right) &=\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{a}}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1} \operatorname{Cov}(\boldsymbol{b}) \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{a}} \\ & =\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{a}}+\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b}} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{b}}^{-1} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{b}, \boldsymbol{a}}\\ &=\operatorname{Cov}(\boldsymbol{a} \mid \boldsymbol{b} =\boldsymbol{\beta}) \end{aligned} \]

Figure 2: Visualization of Matheron’s update rule for a bivariate normal distribution with correlation coefficient \(\rho=0.75 .\) Left: Draws from \(p(\boldsymbol{a}, \boldsymbol{b})\) are shown along with the marginal distributions. Right: Matheron’s update rule is used to update samples shown on the left subject to the condition \(\boldsymbol{b}=\boldsymbol{\beta}\). This process is illustrated in full for one a particular draw (J. T. Wilson et al. 2021).

Can we find a transformation that will turn a Gaussian process prior sample (i.e. function) into a Gaussian process posterior sample, and thus use prior samples, which are presumably pretty easy, to create posterior ones, which are often hard. If we evaluate the sampled function at a finite number of points, then we can use the Matheron formula to do precisely that. Sometimes this can even be useful. The resulting algorithm uses tricks from both analytic GP regression and Monte Carlo.

The sample based approximation to this is precisely the Ensemble Kalman Filter.

2 “Exact” updates for Gaussian processes

Exact in the sense that we do not approximate the data, which is what we might do in a sparse GP or variational GP. In practice, we make approximations in this method too, but different ones; for example we might represent the GP using a finite set of basis functions, which would not be exact if our basis function representation is only an approximation to the “true” GP (as with classic GPs), or we might use an ensemble approximation which would be not exact because it uses samples to approximate measure.

For a Gaussian process \(f \sim \mathcal{G P}(\mu, k)\) with marginal \(\boldsymbol{f}_{m}=f(\mathbf{Z})\), the process conditioned on \(\boldsymbol{f}_{m}=\boldsymbol{y}\) admits, in distribution, the representation \[ \underbrace{(f \mid \boldsymbol{y})(\cdot)}_{\text {posterior }} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \underbrace{f(\cdot)}_{\text {prior }}+\underbrace{k(\cdot, \mathbf{Z}) \mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{f}_{m}\right)}_{\text {update }}. \]

If our observations are contaminated by additive i.i.d Gaussian noise, \(\boldsymbol{y}=\boldsymbol{f}_{m} +\boldsymbol{\varepsilon}\) with \(\boldsymbol{\varepsilon}\sim\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{0}, \sigma^2\mathbf{I}),\) we find \[ \begin{aligned} &\boldsymbol{f}_{*} \mid \boldsymbol{y} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \boldsymbol{f}_{*}+\mathbf{K}_{*, n}\left(\mathbf{K}_{n, n}+\sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)^{-1}(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{f}-\boldsymbol{\varepsilon}) \end{aligned} \] When sampling from exact GPs we jointly draw \(\boldsymbol{f}_{*}\) and \(\boldsymbol{f}\) from the prior. Then, we combine \(\boldsymbol{f}\) with noise variates \(\varepsilon \sim \mathcal{N}\left(\mathbf{0}, \sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)\) such that \(\boldsymbol{f}+\varepsilon\) constitutes a draw from the prior distribution of \(\boldsymbol{y}\).

Compare this to the equivalent distributional update from classical GP regression which updates the moments of a distribution, not samples from a path — the formulae are related though:

…the conditional distribution is the Gaussian \(\mathcal{N}\left(\boldsymbol{\mu}_{* \mid y}, \mathbf{K}_{*, * \mid y}\right)\) with moments \[\begin{aligned} \boldsymbol{\mu}_{* \mid \boldsymbol{y}}&=\boldsymbol{\mu}_*+\mathbf{K}_{*, n} \mathbf{K}_{n, n}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{\mu}_n\right) \\ \mathbf{K}_{*, * \mid \boldsymbol{y}}&=\mathbf{K}_{*, *}-\mathbf{K}_{*, n} \mathbf{K}_{n, n}^{-1} \mathbf{K}_{n, *}\end{aligned} \]

Figure 3: Visual overview for pathwise conditioning of Gaussian processes. Left: The residual \(\boldsymbol{r}=\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{f}_{n}\) (dashed black) of a draw \(f \sim \mathcal{G} \mathcal{P}(0, k)\), shown in orange, given observations \(\boldsymbol{y}\) (black). Middle: A pathwise update (purple) is constructed by Matheron’s update rule. Right: Prior and update are combined to represent conditional (blue). Empirical moments (light blue) of \(10^{5}\) conditioned paths are compared with those of the model (dashed black). The sample average, which matches the posterior mean, has been omitted for clarity. (J. T. Wilson et al. 2021)

3 Using basis functions

For many purposes we need a basis function representation, a.k.a. the weight-space representation. The GP can be written as a random function comprising basis functions \(\boldsymbol{\phi}=\left(\phi_{1}, \ldots, \phi_{\ell}\right)\) with the Gaussian random weight vector \(w\) such that \[ f^{(w)}(\cdot)=\sum_{i=1}^{\ell} w_{i} \phi_{i}(\cdot) \quad \boldsymbol{w} \sim \mathcal{N}\left(\mathbf{0}, \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{w}}\right). \] \(f^{(w)}\) is a random function satisfying \(\boldsymbol{f}^{(\boldsymbol{w})} \sim \mathcal{N}\left(\mathbf{0}, \boldsymbol{\Phi}_{n} \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{w}} \boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top}\right)\), where \(\boldsymbol{\Phi}_{n}=\boldsymbol{\phi}(\mathbf{X})\) is a \(|\mathbf{X}| \times \ell\) matrix of features. If the representation is fortunate, the basis might not be too bad when truncated to a small size.

The posterior weight distribution \(\boldsymbol{w} \mid \boldsymbol{y} \sim \mathcal{N}\left(\boldsymbol{\mu}_{\boldsymbol{w} \mid n}, \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{w} \mid n}\right)\) is Gaussian with moments \[ \begin{aligned} \boldsymbol{\mu}_{\boldsymbol{w} \mid n} &=\left(\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{\Phi}+\sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)^{-1} \boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{y} \\ \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{w} \mid n} &=\left(\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{\Phi}+\sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)^{-1} \sigma^{2} \end{aligned} \] where \(\boldsymbol{\Phi}=\boldsymbol{\phi}(\mathbf{X})\) is an \(n \times \ell\) feature matrix. The right-hand side is computed at \(\mathcal{O}\left(\min \{\ell, n\}^{3}\right)\) cost by applying the Woodbury identity as needed. So far, nothing unusual has arisen; the interesting insight is that this update can be represented as an independent operation.

Figure 4: GP function updates from J. T. Wilson et al. (2021).

In the weight-space setting, the pathwise update given an initial weight vector \(\boldsymbol{w} \sim \mathcal{N}(\mathbf{0}, \mathbf{I})\) is \(\boldsymbol{w} \mid \boldsymbol{y} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \boldsymbol{w}+\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top}\left(\boldsymbol{\Phi} \boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top}+\sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{w}-\boldsymbol{\varepsilon}\right).\)

So if we had a nice weight-space representation for everything already we could go home at this point. However, for many models we are not given that; we might find natural bases for the prior and posterior are not the same (the posterior should not be stationary usually, for one thing).

The innovation in J. T. Wilson et al. (2020) is to make different choices of functional bases for prior and posterior updates. We can choose anything really, AFAICT. They suggest Fourier basis for prior and the canonical basis, i.e. the reproducing kernel basis \(k(\cdot,\vv{x})\) for the update. Then we have \[ \underbrace{(f \mid \boldsymbol{y})(\cdot)}_{\text {sparse posterior }} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{\approx} \underbrace{\sum_{i=1}^{\ell} w_{i} \phi_{i}(\cdot)}_{\text {weight-space prior}} +\underbrace{\sum_{j=1}^{m} v_{j} k\left(\cdot, \boldsymbol{x}_{j}\right)}_{\text {function-space update}} , \] where \(\boldsymbol{v}=\left(\mathbf{K}_{n, n}+\sigma^{2} \mathbf{I}\right)^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{y}-\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{w}- \boldsymbol{\varepsilon}\right).\)

4 Sparse GPs

i.e. using inducing variables.

Given \(q(\boldsymbol{u})\), we approximate posterior distributions as \[ p\left(\boldsymbol{f}_{*} \mid \boldsymbol{y}\right) \approx \int_{\mathbb{R}^{m}} p\left(\boldsymbol{f}_{*} \mid \boldsymbol{u}\right) q(\boldsymbol{u}) \mathrm{d} \boldsymbol{u} . \] If \(\boldsymbol{u} \sim \mathcal{N}\left(\boldsymbol{\mu}_{\boldsymbol{u}}, \boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{u}}\right)\), we compute this integral analytically to obtain a Gaussian distribution with mean and covariance \[ \begin{aligned} \boldsymbol{m}_{* \mid m} &=\mathbf{K}_{*, m} \mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1} \boldsymbol{\mu}_{m} \\ \mathbf{K}_{*, * \mid m} &=\mathbf{K}_{*, *}+\mathbf{K}_{*, m} \mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{\boldsymbol{u}}-\mathbf{K}_{m, m}\right) \mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1} \mathbf{K}_{m, *^{*}} \end{aligned} \]

\[ \begin{aligned} &\boldsymbol{f}_{*} \mid \boldsymbol{u} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{=} \boldsymbol{f}_{*}+\mathbf{K}_{*, m} \mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{u}-\boldsymbol{f}_{m}\right) \\ \end{aligned} \]

When sampling from sparse GPs we draw \(\boldsymbol{f}_{*}\) and \(\boldsymbol{f}_{m}\) together from the prior, and independently generate target values \(\boldsymbol{u} \sim q(\boldsymbol{u}) .\) \[ \underbrace{(f \mid \boldsymbol{u})(\cdot)}_{\text {sparse posterior }} \stackrel{\mathrm{d}}{\approx} \underbrace{\sum_{i=1}^{\ell} w_{i} \phi_{i}(\cdot)}_{\text {weight-space prior}} +\underbrace{\sum_{j=1}^{m} v_{j} k\left(\cdot, \boldsymbol{z}_{j}\right)}_{\text {function-space update}} , \] where we have defined \(\boldsymbol{v}=\mathbf{K}_{m, m}^{-1}\left(\boldsymbol{u}-\boldsymbol{\Phi}^{\top} \boldsymbol{w}\right).\)

5 More pathwise hacks

Conditioning is all well and good, but what else might we want to do with pathwise updates? One possible use is density multiplication: Given \(\boldsymbol{a}_1\sim \mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}_1,\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_1)\) and \(\boldsymbol{a}_2\sim \mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}_2,\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_2)\), can I find a pathwise update that gives me \(\boldsymbol{a}_{1,2}\sim \mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}_1,\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_1)\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}_2,\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_2)=:\mathcal{N}(\boldsymbol{\mu}_{12},\boldsymbol{\Sigma}_{12})\)? This would be useful in, e.g. belief propagation.

This ends up being a lot more involved. See Gaussian Ensemble Belief Propagation for the details.

6 Noisy observations

TBD

7 What pathwise updates are possible for other distributions?

Another way we can think about this is in terms of the action on \(\boldsymbol{x}\), and the correlated \(\boldsymbol{y}\) as an auxiliary which we use to update \(\boldsymbol{x}\). Does that get us anything useful?

8 Matrix GPs

(Ritter et al. 2021 appendix D) reframes the Matheron update and generalises it to matrix Gaussians. TBC.

Figure 5: The Matrix Gaussian pathwise update of Ritter et al. (2021).

9 Stationary moves

Thus far we have talked about moves updating a prior to a posterior; how about moves within a posterior?

We could try Langevin sampling, for example, or SG MCMC but these all seem to require inverting the covariance matrix so are not likely to be efficient in general. Can we do better?

10 Incoming

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