Periodic kernel

The periodic kernel is an important prior when we're trying to model periodic functions with the gaussian process:

\begin{equation} K(x, x') = \sigma^{2} \, \exp\left(-\frac{2}{l^{2}} \sin^{2}\left(\pi \frac{|x-x'|}{p}\right)\right) \end{equation}

Where \(\sigma^2\) is the amplitude, \(l\) the lengthscale and \(p\) the period.

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