About: ITE (Information Theoretical Estimators) is capable of estimating many different variants of entropy, mutual information, divergence, association measures, cross quantities and kernels on distributions. Thanks to its highly modular design, ITE supports additionally (i) the combinations of the estimation techniques, (ii) the easy construction and embedding of novel information theoretical estimators, and (iii) their immediate application in information theoretical optimization problems.

• Conditional Shannon entropy estimation: added.

• Conditional Shannon mutual information estimation: included.

About: The GPstuff toolbox is a versatile collection of Gaussian process models and computational tools required for inference. The tools include, among others, various inference methods, sparse approximations and model assessment methods.

2016-06-09 Version 4.7

Development and release branches available at https://github.com/gpstuff-dev/gpstuff

New features

• Simple Bayesian Optimization demo

Improvements

• Improved use of PSIS
• More options added to gp_monotonic
• Monotonicity now works for additive covariance functions with selected variables
• Possibility to use gpcf_squared.m-covariance function with derivative observations/monotonicity
• Default behaviour made more robust by changing default jitter from 1e-9 to 1e-6
• LA-LOO uses the cavity method as the default (see Vehtari et al (2016). Bayesian leave-one-out cross-validation approximations for Gaussian latent variable models. JMLR, accpeted for publication)
• Selected variables -option works now better with monotonicity

Bugfixes

• small error in derivative observation computation fixed
• several minor bug fixes