“…Experts may provide insights into the proportions of building types in the region, for instance, by specifying the evolution of the regional percentage of RC shear wall buildings. In Bodenmann et al [34], latent functions account for variability and correlations associated to the building attribute combinations to incorporate typological information gathered during post-earthquake inspections. By analogy to the multi-class GP classification scheme (Section 2.2), we employ 𝑐 𝑎 independent latent functions 𝐠 = [𝑔 (1) , … , 𝑔 (𝑐 𝑎 ) ] and impose a GP prior on them.…”