Latent Gaussian Process Regression

We introduce Latent Gaussian Process Regression which is a latent variable extension allowing modelling of non-stationary processes using stationary GP priors. The approach is built on extending the input space of a regression problem with a latent variable that is used to modulate the covariance function over the input space. We show how our approach can be used to model non-stationary processes but also how multi-modal or non-functional processes can be described where the input signal cannot fully disambiguate the output. We exemplify the approach on a set of synthetic data and provide results on real data from geostatistics.