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48 results for Variational Sequence Model

Generative model simulates financial market price variations from order flow.

problem Simulating intra-day price variations driven by order flow.
method Sequence Generative Adversarial Networks framework applied to model order flow.
result Generated price sequences from generative model better match real price variations.

New method models longitudinal data using variational inference and normalizing flows.

problem Handling high-dimensional longitudinal data with time dependency.
method Variational inference with normalizing flows for latent variables.
result The method achieves better likelihood estimates and more reliable missing data imputation.

Proposes a model for multi-horizon probabilistic forecasting of time series influenced by asynchronous events.

problem Forecasting time series influenced by asynchronous events is challenging.
method Introduces Variational Synergetic Multi-Horizon Network (VSMHN), a deep conditional generative model combining deep point processes and variational recurrent neural networks.
result Produces accurate, sharp, and realistic probabilistic forecasts.

HARMLESS meta-learning method models short event sequences with relational information.

problem Learning heterogeneous point process models from short event sequence data.
method Hierarchical Bayesian mixture Hawkes process model with stochastic variational meta expectation maximization.
result HARMLESS outperforms existing methods in predicting future events.

We discuss intrinsic aspects of Krupka's approach to finite-order variational sequences. We give intrinsic isomorphisms of the quotient subsheaves of the short finite-order variational sequence with sheaves of forms on jet spaces of suitable order, obtaining a new finite-order (short exact) variational sequence which i…

2000-01-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Proves solution uniqueness for biomembrane shape prediction.

problem Proving solution uniqueness for the genus one Canham variational problem.
method Combining numeric analytic continuation and singularity analysis to prove non-negativity of a sequence.
result Proves positivity of the sequence, leading to solution uniqueness.

In order to study large variations or fluctuations of finite or infinite sequences (time series), we bring to light an 1868 paper of Crofton and the (Cauchy-)Crofton theorem. After surveying occurrences of this result in the literature, we introduce the inconstancy of a sequence and we show why it seems more pertinent …

2009-10-07abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper analyzes variational autoencoders for state space models with risk bounds.

problem Analyzing the risk associated with variational autoencoders for state space models.
method Backward factorization of variational distributions to analyze excess risk, providing oracle inequalities and upper bounds.
result Explicit upper bounds on variational estimation error for state space models under strong mixing assumptions.

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…

2018-11-25abs ↗pdf ↗

ES-VAE models skeletal pose trajectories by removing nuisance factors.

problem Handling camera orientation, subject scale, viewpoint, and execution speed in skeletal data.
method ES-VAE uses TSRVF representation on Kendall's shape manifold to isolate shape dynamics.
result ES-VAE outperforms standard VAEs and sequence modeling baselines in gait cycle prediction and action recognition.

This paper describes a new online convex optimization method which incorporates a family of candidate dynamical models and establishes novel tracking regret bounds that scale with the comparator's deviation from the best dynamical model in this family. Previous online optimization methods are designed to have a total a…

2013-01-07abs ↗pdf ↗

High dimensional time series are endemic in applications of machine learning such as robotics (sensor data), computational biology (gene expression data), vision (video sequences) and graphics (motion capture data). Practical nonlinear probabilistic approaches to this data are required. In this paper we introduce the v…

2011-07-25abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Deep dynamic generative models are developed to learn sequential dependencies in time-series data. The multi-layered model is designed by constructing a hierarchy of temporal sigmoid belief networks (TSBNs), defined as a sequential stack of sigmoid belief networks (SBNs). Each SBN has a contextual hidden state, inherit…

2015-09-23abs ↗pdf ↗

New method learns low-dimensional representations of nonlinear time series without supervision.

problem Learning low-dimensional representations of nonlinear time series without supervision.
method Based on monotone variational inequality, the method learns representations by assuming sequences arise from a common domain.
result The method can learn the geometry for the entire domain and faithful representations for the dynamics of each individual sequence.

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.

We study the asymptotic consistency properties of αα-Rényi approximate posteriors, a class of variational Bayesian methods that approximate an intractable Bayesian posterior with a member of a tractable family of distributions, the member chosen to minimize the αα-Rényi divergence from the true posterior. Unique to o…

2019-02-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Recurrent neural networks like long short-term memory (LSTM) are important architectures for sequential prediction tasks. LSTMs (and RNNs in general) model sequences along the forward time direction. Bidirectional LSTMs (Bi-LSTMs) on the other hand model sequences along both forward and backward directions and are gene…

2017-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep generative models have been successfully used to learn representations for high-dimensional discrete spaces by representing discrete objects as sequences and employing powerful sequence-based deep models. Unfortunately, these sequence-based models often produce invalid sequences: sequences which do not represent a…

2017-12-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a method to locate power grid recordings using ENF sequences.

problem Locating power grid recordings without concurrent power signals.
method Extract ENF sequences from power and audio recordings, develop multi-class SVM model.
result Validation of location authenticity of recordings using ENF sequences.

We show that unconverged stochastic gradient descent can be interpreted as a procedure that samples from a nonparametric variational approximate posterior distribution. This distribution is implicitly defined as the transformation of an initial distribution by a sequence of optimization updates. By tracking the change …

2015-04-06abs ↗pdf ↗

The C-spectral sequence was introduced by Vinogradov in the late Seventies as a fundamental tool for the study of algebro-geometric properties of jet spaces and differential equations. A spectral sequence arise from the contact filtration of the modules of forms on jet spaces of a fibring (or on a differential equation…

2001-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

In this paper, we investigate the multi-variate sequence classification problem from a multi-instance learning perspective. Real-world sequential data commonly show discriminative patterns only at specific time periods. For instance, we can identify a cropland during its growing season, but it looks similar to a barren…

2017-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Human motion prediction is a stochastic process: Given an observed sequence of poses, multiple future motions are plausible. Existing approaches to modeling this stochasticity typically combine a random noise vector with information about the previous poses. This combination, however, is done in a deterministic manner,…

2019-08-02abs ↗pdf ↗

We propose a black-box variational inference method to approximate intractable distributions with an increasingly rich approximating class. Our method, termed variational boosting, iteratively refines an existing variational approximation by solving a sequence of optimization problems, allowing the practitioner to trad…

2016-11-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Several machine learning problems arising in natural language processing can be modeled as a sequence labeling problem. We provide Gaussian process models based on pseudo-likelihood approximation to perform sequence labeling. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a Bayesian approach to learning in a kernel based framework. …

2014-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

New algorithm optimizes Hawkes process models with short data.

problem Learning causal-interaction networks from short Hawkes process sequences.
method Variational Expectation-Maximization algorithm with extended hyper-parameters and posterior learning.
result Significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods under short observation sequences.

Improves decision-making in models fit with AEVB by using distinct approximate posteriors.

problem Bias in expected risk estimates due to variational distribution use.
method Use multiple approximate posteriors, including those distinct from variational, for decision-making.
result Proposed approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods in single-cell RNA sequencing.

A new method for disentangling action sequences improves model stability.

problem Challenges in unsupervised disentanglement learning due to incomplete theories and abstract notions.
method Introducing disentangling action sequences and a novel fractional variational autoencoder (FVAE) framework.
result FVAE improves the stability of disentanglement for action sequences.

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.