Outlier Robust Learning Algorithm for Gaussian Process Classification

Gaussian process classifiers (GPCs) are fully statistical kernel classification models which have a latent function with Gaussian process prior. Recently, EP approximation method has been proposed to infer the posterior over the latent function. It can have a special hyperparameter which can treat outliers potentially. In this paper, we propose the outlier robust algorithm which alternates EP and the hyperparameter updating until convergence. We also show its usefulness with the simulation results.