Source code for pyro.contrib.gp.likelihoods.gaussian

import torch
from torch.distributions import constraints

import pyro
import pyro.distributions as dist

from pyro.contrib.gp.likelihoods.likelihood import Likelihood
from pyro.nn.module import PyroParam


[docs]class Gaussian(Likelihood): """ Implementation of Gaussian likelihood, which is used for regression problems. Gaussian likelihood uses :class:`~pyro.distributions.Normal` distribution. :param torch.Tensor variance: A variance parameter, which plays the role of ``noise`` in regression problems. """ def __init__(self, variance=None): super(Gaussian, self).__init__() variance = torch.tensor(1.) if variance is None else variance self.variance = PyroParam(variance, constraints.positive)
[docs] def forward(self, f_loc, f_var, y=None): r""" Samples :math:`y` given :math:`f_{loc}`, :math:`f_{var}` according to .. math:: y \sim \mathbb{Normal}(f_{loc}, f_{var} + \epsilon), where :math:`\epsilon` is the ``variance`` parameter of this likelihood. :param torch.Tensor f_loc: Mean of latent function output. :param torch.Tensor f_var: Variance of latent function output. :param torch.Tensor y: Training output tensor. :returns: a tensor sampled from likelihood :rtype: torch.Tensor """ y_var = f_var + self.variance y_dist = dist.Normal(f_loc, y_var.sqrt()) if y is not None: y_dist = y_dist.expand_by(y.shape[:-f_loc.dim()]).to_event(y.dim()) return pyro.sample(self._pyro_get_fullname("y"), y_dist, obs=y)