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Probabilistic Recurrent State-Space Models

31 Jan 2018ICML 2018 7arXiv:1801.10395archive 2025-07-28

Andreas Doerr, Christian Daniel, Martin Schiegg, Duy Nguyen-Tuong, Stefan Schaal, Marc Toussaint, Sebastian Trimpe

State-space models (SSMs) are a highly expressive model class for learning patterns in time series data and for system identification. Deterministic versions of SSMs (e.g. LSTMs) proved extremely successful in modeling complex time series data. Fully probabilistic SSMs, however, are often found hard to train, even for smaller problems. To overcome this limitation, we propose a novel model formulation and a scalable training algorithm based on doubly stochastic variational inference and Gaussian processes. In contrast to existing work, the proposed variational approximation allows one to fully capture the latent state temporal correlations. These correlations are the key to robust training. The effectiveness of the proposed PR-SSM is evaluated on a set of real-world benchmark datasets in comparison to state-of-the-art probabilistic model learning methods. Scalability and robustness are demonstrated on a high dimensional problem.

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Gaussian ProcessesState Space ModelsTime SeriesTime Series AnalysisVariational Inference

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