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48 results for Generative filter

NBF combines deep learning with classical filtering for better belief tracking.

problem Maintaining distributions over hidden states in partially observable systems.
method Trains neural networks to map beliefs to fixed-length vectors, updating them with incoming observations and dynamics.
result NBF efficiently tracks shifting, multimodal beliefs without particle impoverishment.

Gradient filters track moving parameters under noisy data and misspecification.

problem Tracking multidimensional time-varying parameters under noisy observations and model misspecification.
method Gradient-based filters update parameters using the gradient of a postulated objective function, evaluated at either the predicted or updated parameters.
result Novel sufficient conditions for exponential stability of the filtered parameter path, and finite-sample and asymptotic mean squared error bounds.

Convolutional Bayesian filtering generalizes state estimation by incorporating inequality conditions.

problem Standard Bayesian filtering assumes exact conditional probabilities, limiting its applicability.
method Introducing inequality conditions transforms conditional probabilities into convolutional forms, expanding the filtering framework.
result Convolutional Bayesian filtering encompasses standard Bayesian filtering and allows for more nuanced model consideration.

We introduce the variational filtering EM algorithm, a simple, general-purpose method for performing variational inference in dynamical latent variable models using information from only past and present variables, i.e. filtering. The algorithm is derived from the variational objective in the filtering setting and cons…

2018-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

We simplify Bayesian filtering by framing it as optimization, making it practical for high-dimensional systems.

problem Bayesian filtering struggles in high-dimensional state spaces like neural networks.
method We frame Bayesian filtering as optimization, using gradient descent for nonlinear cases.
result Our method results in effective, robust, and scalable filters for high-dimensional systems.

We generate transformation-invariant CNNs using context-aware filters.

problem Creating transformation-invariant neural networks for image recognition.
method Input-conditioned convolution filters combined with max-pooling and multi-instance learning.
result Significantly improved error rates on MNIST variations (1.13% on MNIST-rot-12k, 1.12% on Half-rotated MNIST, 0.68% on Scaling MNIST).

This article studies hypoellipticity on general filtered manifolds. We extend the Rockland criterion to a pseudodifferential calculus on filtered manifolds, construct a parametrix and describe its precise analytic structure. We use this result to study Rockland sequences, a notion generalizing elliptic sequences to fil…

2017-05-03abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a general probabilistic perspective on Gaussian filtering and smoothing. This allows us to show that common approaches to Gaussian filtering/smoothing can be distinguished solely by their methods of computing/approximating the means and covariances of joint probabilities. This implies that novel filters and …

2010-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Latent FxLMS accelerates ANC by adapting along low-dimensional filter weights.

problem Improving active noise control with neural adaptive filters.
method Training an auto-encoder on filter coefficients, constraining weights to latent variables, and updating in latent space.
result Latent FxLMS converges in fewer steps with comparable error to standard FxLMS.

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have recently emerged as a popular building block for natural language processing (NLP). Despite their success, most existing CNN models employed in NLP share the same learned (and static) set of filters for all input sentences. In this paper, we consider an approach of using a smal…

2017-09-25abs ↗pdf ↗

Filtering data with a pre-trained model improves multimodal contrastive learning performance.

problem Improving the quality of internet-scale multimodal datasets.
method Characterized the performance of filtered contrastive learning under a bimodal data generation model.
result Data filtering using a pre-trained model reduces contrastive learning error by a factor of η\sqrt{η} in the large ηη regime.

This study improves state estimation for nonlinear systems using conditional normalizing flows.

problem Performance degradation of traditional filtering algorithms in nonlinear systems with non-Gaussian uncertainty.
method Uses conditional normalizing flows with MLP, transformer, or state-space models for state and parameter estimation.
result Optimal-transport-inspired kinetic loss mitigates overparameterization in flows.

New framework improves robust inference in HMMs under model misspecification.

problem Inference in general state-space HMMs under likelihood misspecification.
method Generalized Bayesian Inference (GBI) and Sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) methods.
result Improved performance in object tracking and Gaussian process regression.

Filtering is a general name for inferring the states of a dynamical system given observations. The most common filtering approach is Gaussian Filtering (GF) where the distribution of the inferred states is a Gaussian whose mean is an affine function of the observations. There are two restrictions in this model: Gaussia…

2018-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

A new flow-based Bayesian filter tackles high-dimensional nonlinear stochastic systems.

problem Bayesian filtering for high-dimensional nonlinear systems is challenging due to non-Gaussian distributions and computational limitations.
method Integrates normalizing flows to construct a latent linear state-space model with efficient density estimation and sampling.
result Demonstrates superior accuracy and efficiency in numerical experiments.

We construct Hodge filtered cohomology groups for complex manifolds that combine the topological information of generalized cohomology theories with geometric data of Hodge filtered holomorphic forms. This theory provides a natural generalization of Deligne cohomology. For smooth complex algebraic varieties, we show th…

2012-12-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Convergence of the Kalman filter is best analyzed by studying the contraction of the Riccati map in the space of positive definite (covariance) matrices. In this paper, we explore how this contraction property relates to a more fundamental non-expansiveness property of filtering maps in the space of probability distrib…

2015-03-31abs ↗pdf ↗

New complexes derived from any filtered cochain complex compute the same cohomology.

problem Constructing cohomologically equivalent subcomplexes from filtered cochain complexes.
method Presenting a general construction that produces subcomplexes from any filtered cochain complex of finite depth.
result The construction of subcomplexes depends only on the filtration up to isomorphism.

A new ML-based filter improves data assimilation for nonlinear systems.

problem Improving data assimilation for nonlinear systems using ensemble methods.
method Developed a machine learning-based conditional mean filter (ML-EnCMF) integrating ANN and linear functions.
result ML-EnCMF outperforms EnKF and likelihood-based EnCMF in nonlinear systems.

Three situations in which filtering theory is used in mathematical finance are illustrated at different levels of detail. The three problems originate from the following different works: 1) On estimating the stochastic volatility model from observed bilateral exchange rate news, by R. Mahieu, and P. Schotman; 2) A stat…

2008-12-21abs ↗pdf ↗

A new filter adapts to heavy-tailed data without tuning, improving performance in challenging conditions.

problem Degraded performance of Kalman and EnKF in heavy-tailed distributions.
method Generalizes EnKF using t-distributions, estimating parameters via EM algorithm.
result Improves performance on challenging filtering problems with heavy-tailed noise.

Novel filtering method for high-dimensional chaotic systems.

problem Filtering in high-dimensional non-Gaussian models with chaotic dynamics and sparse observations.
method Transportation of measures, convex optimization, probabilistic graphical models, nonlinear couplings.
result State-of-the-art tracking performance on chaotic systems like Lorenz-96 model.

We introduce filtered cohomologies of differential forms on symplectic manifolds. They generalize and include the cohomologies discussed in Paper I and II as a subset. The filtered cohomologies are finite-dimensional and can be associated with differential elliptic complexes. Algebraically, we show that the filtered co…

2014-02-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Particle filtering is a powerful approach to sequential state estimation and finds application in many domains, including robot localization, object tracking, etc. To apply particle filtering in practice, a critical challenge is to construct probabilistic system models, especially for systems with complex dynamics or r…

2018-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

WaveletGAN improves GANs by homogenizing noise through multi-channel wavelet filtering.

problem Current noise generation models in GANs struggle with homogenizing noise, leading to low-fidelity samples.
method Proposes a multi-channel wavelet-based filtering method to homogenize noise in GANs.
result WaveletGAN generates high-fidelity samples with the smallest FIDs on Fashion-MNIST, KMNIST, and SVHN datasets.

This study uses neural networks to approximate Bayesian filtering problems.

problem Estimating latent time-series signal statistics from observation sequences.
method Formulated a generic recurrent neural network framework to learn recursive mappings directly.
result Approximation error bounds for filtering in non-compact domains and strong time-uniform bounds.

In this paper we examine the effect of applying ensemble learning to the performance of collaborative filtering methods. We present several systematic approaches for generating an ensemble of collaborative filtering models based on a single collaborative filtering algorithm (single-model or homogeneous ensemble). We pr…

2012-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗