Recurrent neural networks show state-of-the-art results in many text analysis tasks but often require a lot of memory to store their weights. Recently proposed Sparse Variational Dropout eliminates the majority of the weights in a feed-forward neural network without significant loss of quality. We apply this technique …
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Variational Bayesian Sequence-to-Sequence Networks for Memory-Efficient Sign Language Translationstat.ML
A new memory-efficient sign language translation model reduces weight usage.
problem Memory constraints in real-time sign language translation.
method Variational Bayesian sequence-to-sequence network with Gaussian posterior and Indian Buffet Process prior.
result The proposed model achieves substantial weight compression without compromising performance.
Leveraging advances in variational inference, we propose to enhance recurrent neural networks with latent variables, resulting in Stochastic Recurrent Networks (STORNs). The model i) can be trained with stochastic gradient methods, ii) allows structured and multi-modal conditionals at each time step, iii) features a re…
Generating graph structures is a challenging problem due to the diverse representations and complex dependencies among nodes. In this paper, we introduce Graph Variational Recurrent Neural Network (GraphVRNN), a probabilistic autoregressive model for graph generation. Through modeling the latent variables of graph data…
A new approach to learning in brain-like networks using adversarial algorithms.
problem Complex inter-dependencies in brain-like networks not compatible with conditional independence assumptions.
method Adversarial algorithm for learning models of perceptual processing.
result The approach can mimic known neural phenomena and yields testable hypotheses.
VHVM models financial time series with varying volatility.
problem Modeling heteroscedastic behavior in multivariate financial time series.
method Variational autoencoder and recurrent neural network for capturing relationships and temporal dynamics.
result VHVM outperforms GARCH and SV models on FX datasets.
How can we efficiently propagate uncertainty in a latent state representation with recurrent neural networks? This paper introduces stochastic recurrent neural networks which glue a deterministic recurrent neural network and a state space model together to form a stochastic and sequential neural generative model. The c…
Bayesian meta-reinforcement learning improves over point estimates with Laplace approximation.
problem Improving meta-reinforcement learning by providing full posterior distributions.
method Augmenting point estimates with Laplace approximation for full posterior distributions.
result Our method performs similarly to variational baselines with fewer parameters.
In this paper, we use variational recurrent neural network to investigate the anomaly detection problem on graph time series. The temporal correlation is modeled by the combination of recurrent neural network (RNN) and variational inference (VI), while the spatial information is captured by the graph convolutional netw…
Recent advances in the estimation of deep directed graphical models and recurrent networks let us contribute to the removal of a blind spot in the area of probabilistc modelling of time series. The proposed methods i) can infer distributed latent state-space trajectories with nonlinear transitions, ii) scale to large d…
Many efforts have been devoted to training generative latent variable models with autoregressive decoders, such as recurrent neural networks (RNN). Stochastic recurrent models have been successful in capturing the variability observed in natural sequential data such as speech. We unify successful ideas from recently pr…
We focus on the problem of streaming recommender system and explore novel collaborative filtering algorithms to handle the data dynamicity and complexity in a streaming manner. Although deep neural networks have demonstrated the effectiveness of recommendation tasks, it is lack of explorations on integrating probabilis…
Proposes a novel imputation network for clinical time series data.
problem Missing value imputation in clinical time series data with sparsity, irregularity, and high-dimensionality.
method Variational-recurrent imputation network that considers correlated features, temporal dynamics, and uncertainty.
result The proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art methods on real-world EHR datasets.
Stochastic recurrent neural networks with latent random variables of complex dependency structures have shown to be more successful in modeling sequential data than deterministic deep models. However, the majority of existing methods have limited expressive power due to the Gaussian assumption of latent variables. In t…
In this paper we propose a model that combines the strengths of RNNs and SGVB: the Variational Recurrent Auto-Encoder (VRAE). Such a model can be used for efficient, large scale unsupervised learning on time series data, mapping the time series data to a latent vector representation. The model is generative, such that …
Graph processes model a number of important problems such as identifying the epicenter of an earthquake or predicting weather. In this paper, we propose a Graph Convolutional Recurrent Neural Network (GCRNN) architecture specifically tailored to deal with these problems. GCRNNs use convolutional filter banks to keep th…
Representation learning over graph structured data has been mostly studied in static graph settings while efforts for modeling dynamic graphs are still scant. In this paper, we develop a novel hierarchical variational model that introduces additional latent random variables to jointly model the hidden states of a graph…
Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) stand at the forefront of many recent developments in deep learning. Yet a major difficulty with these models is their tendency to overfit, with dropout shown to fail when applied to recurrent layers. Recent results at the intersection of Bayesian modelling and deep learning offer a Bay…
We define Recurrent Gaussian Processes (RGP) models, a general family of Bayesian nonparametric models with recurrent GP priors which are able to learn dynamical patterns from sequential data. Similar to Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs), RGPs can have different formulations for their internal states, distinct inference…
Variational autoencoders were proven successful in domains such as computer vision and speech processing. Their adoption for modeling user preferences is still unexplored, although recently it is starting to gain attention in the current literature. In this work, we propose a model which extends variational autoencoder…
Recurrent neural networks with various types of hidden units have been used to solve a diverse range of problems involving sequence data. Two of the most recent proposals, gated recurrent units (GRU) and minimal gated units (MGU), have shown comparable promising results on example public datasets. In this paper, we int…
The paper uses persistent homology to estimate recurrence times in multi-variate time series.
problem Estimating recurrence times in multi-variate time series with different cyclic behaviors.
method Persistent homology framework with three specialized methods.
result Validated methods on real-world data, including a new benchmark dataset.
Neural GARCH models financial time series with time-varying coefficients.
problem Modeling conditional heteroskedasticity in financial time series.
method Neural network adaptation of GARCH and BEKK models with time-varying coefficients parameterized by a recurrent neural network.
result Neural Students t model consistently outperforms other models on financial time series.
In this work, we attempt to ameliorate the impact of data sparsity in the context of session-based recommendation. Specifically, we seek to devise a machine learning mechanism capable of extracting subtle and complex underlying temporal dynamics in the observed session data, so as to inform the recommendation algorithm…
Recurrent Neural Networks with more flexible memory: better predictions than rough volatilityq-fin.ST
Extended LSTMs improve volatility prediction by 20%.
problem Predicting asset price volatility with long memory.
method Extended LSTMs with multiple flexible timescales.
result Extended LSTMs outperform rough volatility predictions by 20%.
VSE estimates complex processes from noisy measurements without a model.
problem Estimating states of complex, model-free processes from noisy data.
method Variational state estimation using recurrent neural networks (RNNs) in both learning and inference phases.
result VSE provides a competitive state estimate for a benchmark process (Lorenz system) compared to known and data-driven methods.
Modeling sequential data has become more and more important in practice. Some applications are autonomous driving, virtual sensors and weather forecasting. To model such systems, so called recurrent models are frequently used. In this paper we introduce several new Deep recurrent Gaussian process (DRGP) models based on…
In this paper, we show that the recent integration of statistical models with deep recurrent neural networks provides a new way of formulating volatility (the degree of variation of time series) models that have been widely used in time series analysis and prediction in finance. The model comprises a pair of complement…
To simultaneously capture syntax and global semantics from a text corpus, we propose a new larger-context recurrent neural network (RNN) based language model, which extracts recurrent hierarchical semantic structure via a dynamic deep topic model to guide natural language generation. Moving beyond a conventional RNN-ba…
Model integrates multi-view temporal data for better understanding of latent dynamics.
problem Understanding time-dependent heterogeneous properties from multi-view data.
method Generative model using variational autoencoder and recurrent neural network.
result Identifies disentangled latent embeddings across views while accounting for time factor.
Approximate variational inference has shown to be a powerful tool for modeling unknown complex probability distributions. Recent advances in the field allow us to learn probabilistic models of sequences that actively exploit spatial and temporal structure. We apply a Stochastic Recurrent Network (STORN) to learn robot …
Modeling sequential data has become more and more important in practice. Some applications are autonomous driving, virtual sensors and weather forecasting. To model such systems so called recurrent models are used. In this article we introduce two new Deep Recurrent Gaussian Process (DRGP) models based on the Sparse Sp…
Natural spatiotemporal processes can be highly non-stationary in many ways, e.g. the low-level non-stationarity such as spatial correlations or temporal dependencies of local pixel values; and the high-level variations such as the accumulation, deformation or dissipation of radar echoes in precipitation forecasting. Fr…
In this work we explore a straightforward variational Bayes scheme for Recurrent Neural Networks. Firstly, we show that a simple adaptation of truncated backpropagation through time can yield good quality uncertainty estimates and superior regularisation at only a small extra computational cost during training, also re…
A new model integrates LSTM and copulas for high-dimensional financial data.
problem Modeling high-dimensional dependencies across financial markets.
method Variational LSTM with regular vine copulas.
result Outperforms benchmarks in cross-market portfolio forecasting.
Many works have been proposed in the literature to capture the dynamics of diffusion in networks. While some of them define graphical markovian models to extract temporal relationships between node infections in networks, others consider diffusion episodes as sequences of infections via recurrent neural models. In this…
VOWEL trains WTA-SNNs for multi-valued events, overcoming resource limitations.
problem Training WTA-SNNs for multi-valued events is challenging due to non-differentiability and recurrent behavior.
method Develops a variational online local training rule (VOWEL) for WTA-SNNs using local pre- and post-synaptic information and a common reward signal.
result VOWEL outperforms conventional binary SNNs in real-world neuromorphic datasets with multi-valued events.
New clustering algorithm for time series data using RNN and variational Bayes.
problem Lack of generative model-based clustering methods for time series data.
method Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) with variational Bayes method.
result Robustness against phase shift, amplitude, and signal length variations.
Proposes a model to estimate treatment effects in complex multiagent systems over time.
problem Challenges in evaluating interventions in multiagent systems, especially with time-varying relationships and covariates.
method Interpretable counterfactual recurrent network leveraging graph variational recurrent neural networks and domain knowledge.
result Achieved lower estimation errors and more effective treatment timing than baselines in simulated and real-world scenarios.
Our team of dance artists, physicists, and machine learning researchers has collectively developed several original, configurable machine-learning tools to generate novel sequences of choreography as well as tunable variations on input choreographic sequences. We use recurrent neural network and autoencoder architectur…
Recurrent neural network grammars (RNNG) are generative models of language which jointly model syntax and surface structure by incrementally generating a syntax tree and sentence in a top-down, left-to-right order. Supervised RNNGs achieve strong language modeling and parsing performance, but require an annotated corpu…
Develops a deep generative model for radar target recognition using HRRP data.
problem Automatic target recognition in radar systems using high-resolution range profiles.
method Recurrent gamma belief network (rGBN) with hybrid stochastic-gradient MCMC and variational inference.
result Efficient and accurate classification with interpretable latent structure.
This paper reviews and benchmarks DVAEs for sequential data.
problem Processing sequential data with temporal dependencies.
method Dynamical Variational Autoencoders (DVAEs) for sequential data.
result Experimental benchmark on speech analysis-resynthesis task.
TriTPP models enable faster and more flexible event data modeling.
problem Inflexibility and slow sampling in traditional TPP models.
method Triangular Maps and Normalizing Flows for parallel sampling and likelihood computation.
result TriTPP models achieve orders of magnitude faster sampling while maintaining flexibility.
This paper develops a novel deep recurrent neural network for sequential signal reconstruction.
problem Sequential signal reconstruction from low-dimensional measurements.
method Unfolding a reweighted - minimization algorithm to design a deep recurrent neural network.
result The proposed reweighted-RNN significantly outperforms existing RNN models in sequential frame reconstruction.
This study proposes methods for multi-step-ahead stock price prediction using decomposition and neural networks.
problem Inaccurate one-step-ahead forecasting limits stock market decision-making.
method Two novel methods: DCT-MFRFNN and VMD-MFRFNN.
result VMD-MFRFNN outperforms other methods in multi-step-ahead stock price prediction.
DVE models dynamic changes in feature embeddings for better sequence-aware applications.
problem Dynamic characterization of feature variations in time-varying data.
method Dynamic Variational Embedding (DVE) using recurrent neural networks.
result DVE models intrinsic nature and temporal variation of nodes effectively.
QRNN uses quantum neurons to learn sequences efficiently.
problem Efficiently learning sequences with quantum computing.
method Parametrized quantum neurons and amplitude amplification.
result QRNN outperforms classical RNNs on sequence learning tasks.