What is the relation between Slow Feature Analysis and the Successor Representation?

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Autores principales: Seabrook, Eddie, Wiskott, Laurenz
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author Seabrook, Eddie
Wiskott, Laurenz
author_facet Seabrook, Eddie
Wiskott, Laurenz
contents Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised method for extracting representations from time series data. The successor representation (SR) is a method for representing states in a Markov decision process (MDP) based on transition statistics. While SFA and SR stem from distinct areas of machine learning, they share important properties, both in terms of their mathematics and the types of information they are sensitive to. This work studies their connection along these two axes. In particular, both SFA and SR are explored analytically, and in the setting of a one-hot encoded MDP, a formal equivalence is demonstrated in terms of the grid-like representations that occur as solutions/eigenvectors. Moreover, it is shown that the columns of the matrices involved in SFA contain place-like representations, which are formally distinct from place-cell models that have already been defined using SFA.
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spellingShingle What is the relation between Slow Feature Analysis and the Successor Representation?
Seabrook, Eddie
Wiskott, Laurenz
Machine Learning
Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised method for extracting representations from time series data. The successor representation (SR) is a method for representing states in a Markov decision process (MDP) based on transition statistics. While SFA and SR stem from distinct areas of machine learning, they share important properties, both in terms of their mathematics and the types of information they are sensitive to. This work studies their connection along these two axes. In particular, both SFA and SR are explored analytically, and in the setting of a one-hot encoded MDP, a formal equivalence is demonstrated in terms of the grid-like representations that occur as solutions/eigenvectors. Moreover, it is shown that the columns of the matrices involved in SFA contain place-like representations, which are formally distinct from place-cell models that have already been defined using SFA.
title What is the relation between Slow Feature Analysis and the Successor Representation?
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.16991