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Keyword: Gaussian processes Clear all

5 claims from 3 papers

  1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

    Navigating the protein fitness landscape with Gaussian processes

    Romero, Krause and Arnold · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012

    The authors show that Gaussian processes, a Bayesian learning method, can model protein fitness landscapes from experimental data and guide the design of chimeric cytochrome P450 enzymes.

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    1. UncheckedGaussian-process-guided design produced active P450 enzymes the authors report as more heat-stable than any earlier ones made by three standard methods.“These algorithms allowed us to engineer active P450 enzymes that are more thermostable than any previously made by chimeragenesis, rational design, or directed evolution.”
  2. Physics and Astronomy › Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

    Nonparametric late-time expansion history reconstruction and implications for the Hubble tension in light of recent DESI and type Ia supernovae data

    Jiang, Pedrotti, da Costa and Vagnozzi · Physical review. D/Physical review. D. · 2024

    The authors reconstruct the late-time expansion history without assuming a model, using DESI BAO and supernova data, and relate the result to the Hubble and sound horizon tensions.

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    1. UncheckedUsing DESI and PantheonPlus data, two reconstruction methods find expansion-rate deviations from ΛCDM of at most about 10% at z below 2, plus a bump and a dip.“Applied to DESI BAO and PantheonPlus SNeIa data, both methods indicate that deviations from a reference $Λ$CDM model in the $z \lesssim 2$ unnormalized expansion rate $E(z)$ are constrained to be $\lesssim 10\%$, but also consistently identify two features in $E(z)$: a bump at $z \sim 0.5$, and a d…”
    2. UncheckedUsing the SH0ES Hubble constant, the paper's sound horizon estimate differs from Planck's ΛCDM value by about 5σ with DESI data, versus about 6σ with older SDSS data.“Breaking the $r_d$-$H_0$ degeneracy with the SH0ES prior on $H_0$, the significance of the tension between our nonparametric determination of $r_d=136.20^{+2.20}_{-2.40}\,{\text{Mpc}}$ and the \textit{Planck} $Λ$CDM-based determination is at the $5σ$ level, slightly lower than the $6σ$ obtained whe…”
    3. UncheckedThe authors infer the combination c/(r_d H_0) to be 29.90 ± 0.33 from their nonparametric reconstruction of the late-time expansion history.“We infer $c/(r_dH_0)=29.90 \pm 0.33$, with $r_d$ the sound horizon at baryon drag and $H_0$ the Hubble constant.”
  3. Computer Science › Machine Learning and Algorithms

    The Shape of Learning Curves: a Review

    Viering and Loog · arXiv (Cornell University) · 2021

    A review of the literature on how a learner's generalisation performance changes with training set size, covering well-behaved and ill-behaved curve shapes and open problems.

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    1. UncheckedA review concludes that learning curves, which track performance against training data size, take many shapes and no single model fits them all.“All in all, our review underscores that learning curves are surprisingly diverse and no universal model can be identified.”

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