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48 results for temporal functions

New neural networks model for spatio-temporal data.

problem Building a mapping from spatially encoded time series covariates to real-valued response data.
method Proposed two novel extensions of Functional Neural Network (FNN) for spatio-temporal regression.
result Demonstrated effectiveness in handling varying spatial correlations through comprehensive simulation studies.

Temporal difference learning explained through gradient splitting, improving convergence times.

problem Learning value functions in Markov Decision Processes with linear approximations.
method Interpreting TD learning as gradient splitting and applying convergence proofs from gradient descent.
result Improved convergence times for TD learning, especially with a minor variation.

Proposes a new tensor decomposition method for functional temporal data with adaptive complexity.

problem Challenges in temporal tensor decomposition for general tensor data with continuous indexes.
method Encodes continuous spatial indexes as learnable Fourier features and uses neural ODEs for temporal trajectories. Introduces a sparsity-inducing prior for complexity adaptation.
result Significantly outperforms existing methods in prediction performance and robustness against noise.

Study of convergence in Lorentzian spacetimes using temporal functions.

problem Non-compactness of spacetime isometries and convergence in semi-Riemannian settings.
method Introduced anchored convergence and used Cauchy temporal functions to define convergence for spacetimes.
result Established local and global regularity of Cauchy temporal functions and their properties.

ST-GCN improves rs-fMRI prediction accuracy by modeling spatio-temporal graph connectivity.

problem Existing rs-fMRI methods neglect functional connectivity or temporal dynamics.
method Spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) trained on BOLD time series.
result ST-GCN predicts gender and age more accurately than common methods.

Inductive representation learning on temporal graphs is an important step toward salable machine learning on real-world dynamic networks. The evolving nature of temporal dynamic graphs requires handling new nodes as well as capturing temporal patterns. The node embeddings, which are now functions of time, should repres…

2020-02-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New model tackles complex spatio-temporal causal inference with dynamic confounders and functional data.

problem Complex spatio-temporal dynamics and unmeasured confounders hinder causal inference.
method PFD-BDCM, a unified generative framework for spatio-temporal dependencies, functional data, and dynamic confounding.
result PFD-BDCM outperforms existing methods across observational, interventional, and counterfactual queries.

A new model uses neural networks to efficiently learn multivariate temporal point processes.

problem Efficiently modeling multivariate temporal point processes with low parameter complexity.
method Modeling the cumulative hazard function with neural networks for each variate.
result The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on data fitting and event prediction tasks.

New methods for handling time-varying label noise in time series classification.

problem Temporal label noise in time series classification tasks.
method Proposed methods to estimate temporal label noise function directly from data.
result Our methods lead to state-of-the-art performance under diverse types of temporal label noise.

Estimates spatio-temporal Hawkes processes using tensor recovery.

problem Estimating influence functions for spatio-temporal Hawkes processes.
method Formulates influence function as a tensor kernel, assumes low-rank structure, solves as convex optimization problem.
result Provides theoretical guarantees and demonstrates efficiency with simulations.

A framework uses deep learning for spatio-temporal data prediction.

problem Interpolation of continuous spatio-temporal fields on irregular points.
method Decomposes spatio-temporal processes into products of basis functions and spatial coefficients.
result Effectiveness in reconstructing coherent spatio-temporal fields.

Networks are a fundamental tool for modeling complex systems in a variety of domains including social and communication networks as well as biology and neuroscience. Small subgraph patterns in networks, called network motifs, are crucial to understanding the structure and function of these systems. However, the role of…

2016-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Temporal Functional Circuits explain KAN forecasts with interpretable edge functions.

problem Lack of mechanistic explanations in KAN forecasting.
method Transform KAN edge functions into faithful, temporally grounded explanations using a gated residual KAN.
result Gated KAN achieves lower MSE than linear-only models on regime-switching signals.

Proposes a new model for complex multivariate event data.

problem Modeling complex multivariate event data with spatio-temporal dynamics.
method Integrates spatial information into latent state evolution through learned temporal and spatial decay dynamics.
result Successfully recovers sensible temporal and spatial intensity structure in multivariate spatio-temporal point patterns.

Paper develops Dense NN models for temporal-spatial data with improved performance.

problem Improving predictive performance and robustness in temporal-spatial modeling.
method Fully connected neural networks with ReLU activation, non-asymptotic bounds, manifold modeling, short-range dependence.
result Demonstrates superior performance in temporal-spatial modeling across various synthetic functions.

In this article, existence results concerning temporal functions with additional properties on a globally hyperbolic manifold are obtained. These properties are certain bounds on geometric quantities as lapse and shift. The results are linked to completeness properties and the existence of closed isometric embeddings i…

2009-04-09abs ↗pdf ↗

TD learning reduces prediction error in Markov chain problems.

problem Estimating value functions in Markov chains with temporal inconsistency.
method Temporal difference learning minimizes temporal inconsistency between successive estimates.
result TD learning can significantly reduce mean-squared error in value estimates.

Develops methods to answer counterfactual questions in temporal point processes.

problem Lack of counterfactual analysis in temporal point process models.
method Causal model of thinning based on Gumbel-Max structural causal model, superposition theorem, and sampling algorithm.
result Simulation of counterfactual realizations provides valuable insights for targeted interventions.

Knowledge graphs (KGs) typically contain temporal facts indicating relationships among entities at different times. Due to their incompleteness, several approaches have been proposed to infer new facts for a KG based on the existing ones-a problem known as KG completion. KG embedding approaches have proved effective fo…

2019-07-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances SNNs for spatio-temporal feature extraction.

problem Insufficient temporal dependencies in existing SNN synaptic structures.
method Integrates temporal convolution and attention mechanisms into synaptic connections.
result Improves SNN performance on classification tasks.

STACI uses neural nets to estimate spatio-temporal fields with valid uncertainty quantification.

problem Scalable spatio-temporal deep learning models fail to capture underlying correlation structure.
method Variational Bayesian neural network approximation of non-stationary spatio-temporal Gaussian Process (GP) with conformal inference.
result STACI provides accurate prediction intervals for spatio-temporal processes, outperforming competing methods.

GNNs improve brain activity forecasting in fMRI studies.

problem Understanding neural dynamics in the brain.
method Comparison of GNN architectures for modeling fMRI data.
result GNNs outperform VAR models in robustly scaling to large network studies.

Temporal difference learning and Residual Gradient methods are the most widely used temporal difference based learning algorithms; however, it has been shown that none of their objective functions is optimal w.r.t approximating the true value function VV. Two novel algorithms are proposed to approximate the true value…

2017-04-17abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a novel Neural Embedding Spatio-Temporal (NEST) point process model for spatio-temporal discrete event data and develop an efficient imitation learning (a type of reinforcement learning) based approach for model fitting. Despite the rapid development of one-dimensional temporal point processes for discrete e…

2019-06-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Interpretability has arisen as a key desideratum of machine learning models alongside performance. Approaches so far have been primarily concerned with fixed dimensional inputs emphasizing feature relevance or selection. In contrast, we focus on temporal modeling and the problem of tailoring the predictor, functionally…

2018-06-30abs ↗pdf ↗

New null distance bounds confirm Big Bang singularity in cosmological models.

problem Understanding the geometry of spacetime near Big Bang singularities.
method Developed a new null distance metric for temporal functions and applied it to cosmological models.
result Null distance is bounded by a constant multiple of Riemannian distance on level sets with constant gradient norm.

TG-GAN models dynamic graph evolution for continuous-time temporal graphs.

problem Challenges in modeling dynamic temporal graphs, especially in continuous time.
method Temporal Graph Generative Adversarial Network (TG-GAN) that models truncated edge sequences, time budgets, and node attributes.
result TG-GAN significantly outperforms existing methods in efficiency and effectiveness.

Paper presents a spatio-temporal Bayesian model for early detection of COVID-19 hotspots.

problem Understanding spatio-temporal dynamics of COVID-19 hotspots to prevent outbreaks.
method Spatio-temporal Bayesian framework with a zero-mean Gaussian process and non-stationary kernel function enhanced by deep neural networks.
result Model demonstrates superior hotspot-detection performance compared to baseline methods.

Temporal networks representing a stream of timestamped edges are seemingly ubiquitous in the real-world. However, the massive size and continuous nature of these networks make them fundamentally challenging to analyze and leverage for descriptive and predictive modeling tasks. In this work, we propose a general framewo…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In this work, we present a method for node embedding in temporal graphs. We propose an algorithm that learns the evolution of a temporal graph's nodes and edges over time and incorporates this dynamics in a temporal node embedding framework for different graph prediction tasks. We present a joint loss function that cre…

2019-03-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Temporal abstraction refers to the ability of an agent to use behaviours of controllers which act for a limited, variable amount of time. The options framework describes such behaviours as consisting of a subset of states in which they can initiate, an internal policy and a stochastic termination condition. However, mu…

2020-01-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Temporal-difference and Q-learning learn feature representations that converge to optimal ones.

problem Understanding how feature representations evolve in temporal-difference and Q-learning with neural networks.
method Mean-field theory applied to overparameterized two-layer neural networks.
result The feature representation converges to the optimal one, generalizing previous results.

Proposes a method to enhance exploration in RL using temporal difference uncertainties.

problem Challenges in estimating uncertainty in non-tabular reinforcement learning settings.
method Estimates uncertainty over value function using temporal difference errors and incorporates it as an intrinsic reward.
result Demonstrates improved exploration in various tasks, including Deep Sea and Atari 2600 environments.

Improved incremental sequence classification with temporal consistency.

problem Updating predictions as new sequence elements are revealed.
method Temporal-difference learning and a temporal-consistency condition for successive predictions.
result Optimizing a novel loss function improves data efficiency and predictive accuracy.