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48 results for Factorial HMMs

New algorithms for high-dimensional HMMs reduce complexity by discarding non-local factors.

problem High-dimensional HMMs are computationally expensive to filter and smooth.
method Approximate filtering and smoothing via locality in factor graphs, avoiding exponential cost.
result Error bounds in local total variation norm are dimension-free, improving scalability.

In this paper, we develop a parameter estimation method for factorially parametrized models such as Factorial Gaussian Mixture Model and Factorial Hidden Markov Model. Our contributions are two-fold. First, we show that the emission matrix of the standard Factorial Model is unidentifiable even if the true assignment ma…

2015-08-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We study a novel spline-like basis, which we name the "falling factorial basis", bearing many similarities to the classic truncated power basis. The advantage of the falling factorial basis is that it enables rapid, linear-time computations in basis matrix multiplication and basis matrix inversion. The falling factoria…

2014-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

A new model separates persistence and transition priors in HDP-HMM.

problem Limitation of sticky HDP-HMM in expressing different persistence strengths.
method Developed a disentangled sticky HDP-HMM (DS-HDP-HMM) with novel Gibbs sampling algorithms.
result DS-HDP-HMM outperforms sticky HDP-HMM and HDP-HMM on synthetic and real data.

Bayesian neural networks improve uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.

problem Improving uncertainty estimation in 3D point cloud segmentation for factory planning.
method Proposed fully Bayesian and approximate Bayesian neural networks for point cloud segmentation.
result Superior model performance and improved segmentation results with uncertainty incorporation.

Neural networks learn more efficiently with hidden factorial structures.

problem Challenges in high-dimensional statistical learning.
method Controlled experimental framework to test neural networks' ability to exploit hidden factorial structures.
result Neural networks can leverage hidden factorial structures to learn discrete distributions more efficiently.

HMRNN combines HMMs and neural networks for Alzheimer's disease forecasting.

problem Improving disease progression modeling with hidden states not fully known.
method Developed HMRNN combining HMMs and recurrent neural networks.
result HMRNN improves disease forecasting and offers novel clinical interpretation.

Factorial moments are convenient tools in nuclear physics to characterize the multiplicity distributions when phase-space resolution (ΔΔ) becomes small. For uncorrelated particle production within ΔΔ, Gaussian statistics holds and factorial moments FqF_q are equal to unity for all orders qq. Correlations between par…

2011-08-29abs ↗pdf ↗

We study the problem of learning overcomplete HMMs---those that have many hidden states but a small output alphabet. Despite having significant practical importance, such HMMs are poorly understood with no known positive or negative results for efficient learning. In this paper, we present several new results---both po…

2017-11-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Designs efficient factorial experiments for product design under budget constraints.

problem Designing effective experiments for product design with limited traffic and overlapping experiments.
method Two-stage design: first stage samples and infers performance, second stage selects a final policy.
result The method outperforms one-shot tensor completion and unstructured best-arm benchmarks.

Cloned HMMs efficiently learn variable order sequences without local minima issues.

problem Learning long-term temporal structure in sequences.
method Constrained HMMs with a sparsity structure that maps hidden states deterministically to emissions.
result Cloned HMMs can model temporal dependencies at arbitrarily long distances and recognize contexts with 'holes'.

Paper tackles efficient HMM learning with conditional samples.

problem Cryptographic hardness in learning HMMs from i.i.d. samples.
method Interactive access model, polynomial-time algorithms for conditional probabilities and latent low rank structures.
result Efficient algorithms for HMM learning in both exact and approximate conditional settings.

New method uses Rashomon sets to improve Bayesian inference in factorial designs.

problem Combustion of model uncertainty in factorial designs leads to multimodal posterior and convergence issues.
method Rashomon-seeded annealing, integrating high-performing models as warm start for AIS.
result Restores full posterior inference without exhaustive enumeration of model space.

Suppose that we are given a time series where consecutive samples are believed to come from a probabilistic source, that the source changes from time to time and that the total number of sources is fixed. Our objective is to estimate the distributions of the sources. A standard approach to this problem is to model the …

2016-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

The hidden Markov model (HMM) is a widely-used generative model that copes with sequential data, assuming that each observation is conditioned on the state of a hidden Markov chain. In this paper, we derive a novel algorithm to cluster HMMs based on the hierarchical EM (HEM) algorithm. The proposed algorithm i) cluster…

2012-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper addresses the issue of model selection for hidden Markov models (HMMs). We generalize factorized asymptotic Bayesian inference (FAB), which has been recently developed for model selection on independent hidden variables (i.e., mixture models), for time-dependent hidden variables. As with FAB in mixture model…

2012-06-18abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider the smoothing probabilities of hidden Markov model (HMM). We show that under fairly general conditions for HMM, the exponential forgetting still holds, and the smoothing probabilities can be well approximated with the ones of double sided HMM. This makes it possible to use ergodic theorems. As an applicatio…

2009-10-24abs ↗pdf ↗

New findings show single-treatment effects are unidentifiable in factorial experiments.

problem Identifying the effect of a single intervention in factorial experiments.
method Formalized sufficient conditions for the identifiability of single-treatment effects and developed nonparametric sharp bounds.
result Researchers must justify assumptions for extrapolating single-treatment effects.

Eye Movement analysis with Hidden Markov Models (EMHMM) is a method for modeling eye fixation sequences using hidden Markov models (HMMs). In this report, we run a simulation study to investigate the estimation error for learning HMMs with variational Bayesian inference, with respect to the number of sequences and the …

2018-10-17abs ↗pdf ↗

High-throughput 3D control training system achieves 100,000 FPS.

problem Lack of efficient, single-machine reinforcement learning systems.
method Sample Factory combines asynchronous sampling and off-policy correction.
result Achieves 100,000 FPS on 3D control problems without sacrificing sample efficiency.

In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of dynamic analysis techniques for identifying malware, using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Profile Hidden Markov Models (PHMMs), both trained on sequences of API calls. We contrast our results to static analysis using HMMs trained on sequences of opcodes, and show that dyn…

2019-01-06abs ↗pdf ↗

We consider learning parameters of Binomial Hidden Markov Models, which may be used to model DNA methylation data. The standard algorithm for the problem is EM, which is computationally expensive for sequences of the scale of the mammalian genome. Recently developed spectral algorithms can learn parameters of latent va…

2018-02-07abs ↗pdf ↗

Efficiently models tree-like data with coupled branches using HMMs.

problem Modeling sequential data with coupled branches in biological systems.
method Developed a dynamic programming algorithm for tree-based HMMs with coupled branches.
result Efficiently solves likelihood, decoding, and parameter learning problems for tree-based HMMs with coupled branches.

New algorithm for aggregate inference in HMMs with continuous observations.

problem Inference in large populations with indistinguishable individuals and continuous measurements.
method Continuous observation collective forward-backward algorithm extending existing discrete case algorithm.
result Efficacy demonstrated through numerical experiments.

Enhances fraud detection with multiple HMM perspectives.

problem Detecting credit card fraud from sequential transactions.
method Modeling credit card transactions from three perspectives (card-holder, terminal, amount/time) using HMMs and combining likelihoods as features.
result 15% increase in precision-recall AUC compared to state-of-the-art methods.

Scalable hybrid HMM with Gaussian Process for time-series data clustering.

problem Large number of parameters and long sequences in time-series data make HMM-GPSM training difficult.
method Stochastic Variational Inference (SVI) for long sequences and reparameterized random Fourier features (R-RFF) for large data points.
result Significant reduction in training time and improved hidden-state estimation accuracy.