A Note on the comparison of Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process (NNGP) based models

11/09/2018
by   Lu Zhang, et al.
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This note is devoted to the comparison between two Nearest-neighbor Gaussian processes (NNGP) based models: the response NNGP model and the latent NNGP model. We exhibit that the comparison based on the Kullback-Leibler divergence (KL-D) from the NNGP based models to their parent GP based model can result in reverse conclusions in different parameter spaces. And we suggest a heuristic explanation on the phenomenon that the latent NNGP model tends to outperform the response NNGP model in approximating their parent GP based model.

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