arXiv (Cornell University)
Kernel Conditional Density Operators
May 2019 • Ingmar Schuster, Mattes Mollenhauer, Stefan Klus, Krikamol Muandet
We introduce a novel conditional density estimation model termed the conditional density operator (CDO). It naturally captures multivariate, multimodal output densities and shows performance that is competitive with recent neural conditional density models and Gaussian processes. The proposed model is based on a novel approach to the reconstruction of probability densities from their kernel mean embeddings by drawing connections to estimation of Radon-Nikodym derivatives in the reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RK…