Auto-regressive models learn latent states from partially observed linear dynamical systems.
problem Understanding how auto-regressive models learn latent representations from partially observed linear dynamical systems.
method Empirical risk minimization on partially observed linear dynamical systems.
result Two-layer linear auto-regressive models learn to approximate Kalman filtering, coinciding with optimal state estimates.
DSARF models complex spatio-temporal data with deep switching auto-regressive factors.
problem Forecasting complex spatio-temporal data with recurring patterns.
method Deep switching auto-regressive factorization (DSARF) with stochastic variational inference.
result DSARF outperforms state-of-the-art methods in long- and short-term prediction accuracy.
Hybrid model combines VAR and neural network for OFI prediction.
problem Accurate prediction of Order Flow Imbalance (OFI) in high frequency trading.
method Combines Vector Auto Regression (VAR) and a simple feedforward neural network (FNN).
result Hybrid model achieves superior predictive accuracy compared to standalone models.
Auto-regressive models improve smoothing efficiency with exponentially tapered windows.
problem Improving time-series smoothing efficiency.
method An auto-regressive formulation for time-series smoothing.
result Auto-regressive models result in moving means with exponentially tapered windows.
Paper reduces vocabulary losslessly for language model cooperation.
problem Language models struggle to cooperate with different tokenizations.
method Established a theoretical framework for lossless vocabulary reduction.
result Efficiently converts models with different tokenizations to cooperate with maximal common vocabulary.
VAR-GPs solve continual learning by updating posteriors sequentially.
problem Catastrophic forgetting in sequential learning tasks.
method Sparse inducing point approximations and auto-regressive variational distribution.
result VAR-GPs prevent catastrophic forgetting and outperform baselines.
New approach predicts tokens in context, explaining how ICL emerges.
problem Limited understanding of in-context learning emergence.
method Auto-regressive next-token prediction (AR-NTP) with prompt token-dependency and a two-level expectation.
result ICL emerges from the generalization of sequences and topics.
Proof of Gaussian ML estimator consistency in linear auto-regressive models.
problem Consistency of Gaussian maximum likelihood estimator in linear auto-regressive models.
method Information-theoretic proof without stability assumptions.
result Nearly optimal non-asymptotic rates for parameter recovery.
CAFLOW uses auto-regressive flows to translate images efficiently.
problem Image-to-image translation tasks.
method Transforms conditioning image into latent encodings using normalizing flows, models conditional distribution with auto-regressive distributions.
result Outperforms former conditional flow designs.
Transformer adapts to graphs with adaptive attention and auto-regressive decoding.
problem Transformers struggle with graph data due to non-sequential nature.
method Proposes GRAT, a Transformer variant with adaptive attention and auto-regressive decoding.
result GRAT achieves state-of-the-art performance on molecule property predictions and generation tasks.
Enhanced multi-fidelity models improve digital twin accuracy and uncertainty quantification.
problem Lack of detailed application-specific data and inaccurate sensor data hinder surrogate model learning for digital twins.
method Proposes a multi-fidelity surrogate model framework integrating PCFE and GP, and deep-HPCFE with auto-regression schemes.
result Demonstrates improved accuracy and uncertainty quantification in digital twin systems.
VEST automates feature engineering for time series forecasting.
problem Challenges in time series forecasting with improved performance.
method VEST combines auto-regression with statistical summarization of recent past dynamics.
result VEST significantly improves forecasting performance.
In this paper, non-linear time series models are used to describe volatility in financial time series data. To describe volatility, two of the non-linear time series are combined into form TAR (Threshold Auto-Regressive Model) with AARCH (Asymmetric Auto-Regressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) error term and its par…
Cactus improves auto-regressive decoding speed without sacrificing quality.
problem Accelerating auto-regressive decoding while maintaining output quality.
method Formalizes speculative sampling as constrained optimization and proposes Cactus for controlled divergence from the verifier distribution.
result Empirically validated effectiveness across various benchmarks.
TraDE uses self-attention for better density estimation of tabular and image data.
problem Improving density estimation for tabular and image data.
method Self-attention-based architecture trained with a penalized maximum likelihood objective.
result TraDE produces significantly better density estimates than existing methods.
The paper proposes a new auto-regressive model for multivariate distributional time series.
problem Statistical analysis of multivariate time series of probability measures.
method Wasserstein space, auto-regressive model, iterated random function systems.
result Consistent estimator for auto-regressive coefficients with sparse structure.
ProtTrans models predict protein features without evolutionary info.
problem Predicting protein features from amino acid sequences.
method Self-supervised deep learning on large protein datasets.
result ProtT5 embeddings outperform state-of-the-art for per-residue predictions.
In recent years, deep learning has proven to be a viable methodology for surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification for a vast number of physical systems. However, in their traditional form, such models can require a large amount of training data. This is of particular importance for various engineering and scie…
We propose a vector auto-regressive (VAR) model with a low-rank constraint on the transition matrix. This new model is well suited to predict high-dimensional series that are highly correlated, or that are driven by a small number of hidden factors. We study estimation, prediction, and rank selection for this model in …
This paper compares traditional econometric and contemporary machine/deep learning techniques for forecasting foreign exchange rates.
problem Accurate prediction of foreign exchange rates for investment purposes.
method Multivariate time series analysis using Vector Auto Regression, Support Vector Machine, and Recurrent Neural Networks.
result Contemporary machine/deep learning techniques outperform traditional econometric methods in forecasting foreign exchange rates.
BMBO-DARN optimizes expensive functions with varying fidelities.
problem Optimizing expensive, multi-fidelity functions efficiently.
method Batch Multi-fidelity Bayesian Optimization with Deep Auto-Regressive Networks.
result BMBO-DARN improves surrogate learning and optimization performance.
Improved text generation with constraints using discrete auto-regressive biasing.
problem Balancing fluency and constraint satisfaction in LLM outputs.
method Discrete Auto-regressive Biasing, leveraging gradients in discrete text space.
result Significantly improved constraint satisfaction with comparable fluency.
A new method estimates expectations from subtractive mixture models without sampling.
problem Estimating expectations from multimodal distributions using SMMs.
method Difference representation of SMMs to create unbiased IS estimator (ΔextEx). result Demonstrates that ΔextEx can achieve comparable estimation quality to auto-regressive sampling but is faster. MDMs train to decode tokens in a random order, which affects performance; we show they can be optimized for a favorable order.
problem Performance of MDMs is affected by the random order in which tokens are decoded.
method We show that MDMs can be optimized for a favorable decoding order by equipping their continuous-time variational objective with multivariate noise schedules.
result MDMs can be decomposed into a weighted auto-regressive losses over orders, making them auto-regressive models with learnable orders.
Auto-regressive diffusion models improve capturing conditional dependence in data.
problem Vanilla diffusion models struggle to capture important, high-level relationships in real-world data.
method Developed auto-regressive diffusion models to better capture conditional dependence structures.
result AR diffusion models produce samples with a reduced gap in approximating the data conditional distribution.
We introduce graph normalizing flows: a new, reversible graph neural network model for prediction and generation. On supervised tasks, graph normalizing flows perform similarly to message passing neural networks, but at a significantly reduced memory footprint, allowing them to scale to larger graphs. In the unsupervis…
In this paper, we introduce the use of a personalized Gaussian Process model (pGP) to predict the key metrics of Alzheimer's Disease progression (MMSE, ADAS-Cog13, CDRSB and CS) based on each patient's previous visits. We start by learning a population-level model using multi-modal data from previously seen patients us…
A new method improves text generation quality and diversity.
problem Exposure bias in Maximum Likelihood Estimation for text generation.
method ψ-MLE, a new training scheme based on density ratio estimation.
result ψ-MLE outperforms Maximum Likelihood Estimation and other models in text generation quality and diversity.
Improves naturalness in TTS samples using quantized VAE and auto-regressive prosody.
problem Discontinuous and unnatural speech from standard VAE priors.
method Discretized latent features using vector quantization (VQ), and separately trained autoregressive (AR) prior model.
result Significantly improves naturalness in random sample generation.
Adaptive Conformal Inference improves time series forecasting uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty quantification in time series models with dependency.
method AgACI, an adaptive method based on online expert aggregation.
result AgACI provides efficient prediction intervals for day-ahead electricity price forecasting.
The paper analyzes prediction error in nonstationary settings using weighted risk minimization.
problem Prediction under distribution drift and nonstationary conditions.
method General decomposition of excess risk into learning and drift terms, proving oracle inequalities under mixing conditions.
result Oracle inequalities for the learning error, providing bounds that hold uniformly over arbitrary weight classes.
In this work we investigate approaches to reconstruct generator models from measurements available at the generator terminal bus using machine learning (ML) techniques. The goal is to develop an emulator which is trained online and is capable of fast predictive computations. The training is illustrated on synthetic dat…
We introduce an auto-regressive model which captures the growing nature of realistic markets. In our model agents do not trade with other agents, they interact indirectly only through a market. Change of their wealth depends, linearly on how much they invest, and stochastically on how much they gain from the noisy mark…
Numerous empirical proofs indicate the adequacy of the time discrete auto-regressive stochastic volatility models introduced by Taylor in the description of the log-returns of financial assets. The pricing and hedging of contingent products that use these models for their underlying assets is a non-trivial exercise due…
Simple tabular event prediction model outperforms existing methods.
problem Predicting events from tabular data with historic events.
method Standard autoregressive LLM-style transformers with elementary positional embeddings and causal language modeling.
result Simple model outperforms existing approaches across various datasets and use-cases.
A new framework predicts links in time-dependent networks using Bernoulli autoregression.
problem Predicting links in time-dependent networks with additional auxiliary information.
method A Bernoulli autoregressive model with regularization for link discovery.
result The model can discover new links not present in the data.
DBNs predict cryptocurrency price directions by uncovering causal relationships.
problem Predicting cryptocurrency price movements due to volatility and external factors.
method Dynamic Bayesian Networks (DBN) approach to identify causal relationships among features.
result DBN significantly outperforms baseline models in predicting cryptocurrency prices.
Improved language models by incorporating statistical discriminators.
problem Distinguishing model-generated text from real text reliably.
method Energy-Based Model framework to incorporate discriminators.
result Improves language model performance in perplexity and human evaluation.
Global models outperform univariate benchmarks in complex time series forecasting.
problem Comparing global forecasting models to univariate benchmarks in various challenging scenarios.
method Simulated datasets with controlled characteristics, including homogeneity, complexity, and series lengths. Global forecasting models (RNN, LGBM) compared to univariate techniques.
result Global models like RNN and LGBM are competitive in complex scenarios with short series lengths and heterogeneous data.
We propose a generic confidence-based approximation that can be plugged in and simplify the auto-regressive generation process with a proved convergence. We first assume that the priors of future samples can be generated in an independently and identically distributed (i.i.d.) manner using an efficient predictor. Given…
Generative models speed up complex system simulations.
problem Accurately forecasting the dynamics of complex systems at reduced cost.
method Generative Learning of Effective Dynamics (G-LED) using auto-regressive attention and Bayesian diffusion models.
result Generative models can accurately forecast complex system dynamics at lower computational cost.
Spatio-temporal graphs such as traffic networks or gene regulatory systems present challenges for the existing deep learning methods due to the complexity of structural changes over time. To address these issues, we introduce Spatio-Temporal Deep Graph Infomax (STDGI)---a fully unsupervised node representation learning…
This paper proposes a new loss using short-time Fourier transform (STFT) spectra for the aim of training a high-performance neural speech waveform model that predicts raw continuous speech waveform samples directly. Not only amplitude spectra but also phase spectra obtained from generated speech waveforms are used to c…
Study evaluates ensemble methods for zero-shot uncertainty quantification with diffusion models.
problem Quantifying uncertainty in zero-shot regression problems using diffusion models.
method Used diffusion probabilistic models for ensemble prediction and evaluated their effectiveness on various regression tasks.
result Ensemble methods consistently improve model prediction accuracy across different regression tasks.
Theoretical analysis of deep neural networks for time series data.
problem Theoretical development for deep neural networks on temporally dependent observations is lacking.
method Established non-asymptotic bounds for prediction error of deep neural networks under mixing-type assumptions.
result Deep neural networks can model non-linear time series data with additional logarithmic factors due to dependence.
A new RG approach connects discrete and continuous time descriptions of Gaussian processes.
problem Discretization of continuous stochastic processes for accurate simulation or model inference.
method Renormalization Group (RG) approach for Gaussian time series generated by auto-regressive models.
result RG fixed points correspond to discretizations of linear SDEs, providing insights into process accuracy.
We present a new classification method for quasar identification in the EROS-2 and MACHO datasets based on a boosted version of Random Forest classifier. We use a set of variability features including parameters of a continuous auto regressive model. We prove that continuous auto regressive parameters are very importan…
Study error bounds and optimal schedules for Masked Diffusions with factorized approximations.
problem Analyzing trade-offs between computation and accuracy in Masked Diffusion Models.
method Provided general error bounds and identified optimal schedules based on data distribution information profiles.
result Identified optimal schedule sizes for Masked Diffusion Models.