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Poster

Learning interpretable continuous-time models of latent stochastic dynamical systems

Lea Duncker · Gergo Bohner · Julien Boussard · Maneesh Sahani

Pacific Ballroom #229

Keywords: [ Dimensionality Reduction ] [ Gaussian Processes ] [ Time Series and Sequence Models ] [ Unsupervised Learning ]


Abstract:

We develop an approach to learn an interpretable semi-parametric model of a latent continuous-time stochastic dynamical system, assuming noisy high-dimensional outputs sampled at uneven times. The dynamics are described by a nonlinear stochastic differential equation (SDE) driven by a Wiener process, with a drift evolution function drawn from a Gaussian process (GP) conditioned on a set of learnt fixed points and corresponding local Jacobian matrices. This form yields a flexible nonparametric model of the dynamics, with a representation corresponding directly to the interpretable portraits routinely employed in the study of nonlinear dynamical systems. The learning algorithm combines inference of continuous latent paths underlying observed data with a sparse variational description of the dynamical process. We demonstrate our approach on simulated data from different nonlinear dynamical systems.

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