pyGPs 1.3.2

Gaussian Processes for Regression and Classification

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Marion Neumann [marion dot neumann at uni-bonn dot de]
Daniel Marthaler [dan dot marthaler at gmail dot com]
Shan Huang [schan dot huang at gmail dot com]
Kristian Kersting [kristian dot kersting at cs dot tu-dortmund dot de]

This file is part of pyGPs.
The software package is released under the BSD 2-Clause (FreeBSD) License.

Copyright (c) by
Marion Neumann, Daniel Marthaler, Shan Huang & Kristian Kersting, 18/02/2014
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pyGPs is a library containing code for Gaussian Process (GP) Regression and Classification.

Here is the online documentation: [ONLINE documentation](http://www-ai.cs.uni-dortmund.de/weblab/static/api_docs/pyGPs/).

pyGPs is an object-oriented implementation of GPs. Its functionality follows roughly the gpml matlab implementation by Carl Edward Rasmussen and Hannes Nickisch (Copyright (c) by Carl Edward Rasmussen and Hannes Nickisch, 2013-01-21).

Standard GP regression and (binary) classification as well as FITC (sparse GPs) inference is implemented.
For a list of implemented covariance, mean, likelihood, and inference functions see list_of_functions.txt.
The current implementation is optimized and tested, however, the work on this library is still in progress. We appreciate any feedback.

A comprehensive introduction to functionalities and demonstrations can be found in the *doc* folder; just open /doc/build/html/index.html in your browser to get to the html documentation of the whole package.

Further, pyGPs includes implementations of
- minimize.py implemented in python by Roland Memisevic 2008, following minimize.m which is copyright (C) 1999 - 2006, Carl Edward Rasmussen
- scg.py (Copyright (c) Ian T Nabney (1996-2001))
- brentmin.py (Copyright (c) by Hannes Nickisch 2010-01-10.)


Installing pyGPs
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Download the archive and extract it to any local directory.

You can either add the local directory to your PYTHONPATH:

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/local/directory/../parent_folder_of_pyGPs

or install the package using setup.py:

python setup.py install

or install via pip::

pip install pyGPs

Requirements
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- python 2.6 or 2.7
- scipy (v0.13.0 or later), numpy, and matplotlib: open-source packages for scientific computing using the Python programming language.


Acknowledgements
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The following persons helped to improve this software: Roman Garnett, Maciej Kurek, Hannes Nickisch, Zhao Xu, and Alejandro Molina.

This work is partly supported by the Fraunhofer ATTRACT fellowship STREAM.