{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/gp-tree-a-gaussian-process-classifier-for-few","title":"GP-Tree: A Gaussian Process Classifier for Few-Shot Incremental Learning","arxiv_id":"2102.07868","date":"2021-02-15","proceeding":null,"authors":["Idan Achituve","Aviv Navon","Yochai Yemini","Gal Chechik","Ethan Fetaya"],"abstract":"Gaussian processes (GPs) are non-parametric, flexible, models that work well in many tasks. Combining GPs with deep learning methods via deep kernel learning (DKL) is especially compelling due to the strong representational power induced by the network. However, inference in GPs, whether with or without DKL, can be computationally challenging on large datasets. Here, we propose GP-Tree, a novel method for multi-class classification with Gaussian processes and DKL. We develop a tree-based hierarchical model in which each internal node of the tree fits a GP to the data using the P\\'olya Gamma augmentation scheme. As a result, our method scales well with both the number of classes and data size. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method against other Gaussian process training baselines, and we show how our general GP approach achieves improved accuracy on standard incremental few-shot learning benchmarks.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07868v4","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.07868v4.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"gp-tree-a-gaussian-process-classifier-for-few","repo_url":"https://github.com/IdanAchituve/GP-Tree","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"few-shot-learning","task_name":"Few-Shot Learning"},{"task_slug":"gaussian-processes","task_name":"Gaussian Processes"},{"task_slug":"incremental-learning","task_name":"Incremental Learning"},{"task_slug":"multi-class-classification","task_name":"Multi-class Classification"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"dkl","method_name":"DKL"},{"method_slug":"gps","method_name":"GPS"},{"method_slug":"gaussian-process","method_name":"Gaussian Process"},{"method_slug":"polya-gamma-augmentation","method_name":"Polya-Gamma Augmentation"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=2102.07868","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}