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Main Authors: El-Laham, Yousef, Sun, Zhongchang, Zhu, Haibei, Balch, Tucker, Vyetrenko, Svitlana
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00635
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author El-Laham, Yousef
Sun, Zhongchang
Zhu, Haibei
Balch, Tucker
Vyetrenko, Svitlana
author_facet El-Laham, Yousef
Sun, Zhongchang
Zhu, Haibei
Balch, Tucker
Vyetrenko, Svitlana
contents In this work, we explore modeling change points in time-series data using neural stochastic differential equations (neural SDEs). We propose a novel model formulation and training procedure based on the variational autoencoder (VAE) framework for modeling time-series as a neural SDE. Unlike existing algorithms training neural SDEs as VAEs, our proposed algorithm only necessitates a Gaussian prior of the initial state of the latent stochastic process, rather than a Wiener process prior on the entire latent stochastic process. We develop two methodologies for modeling and estimating change points in time-series data with distribution shifts. Our iterative algorithm alternates between updating neural SDE parameters and updating the change points based on either a maximum likelihood-based approach or a change point detection algorithm using the sequential likelihood ratio test. We provide a theoretical analysis of this proposed change point detection scheme. Finally, we present an empirical evaluation that demonstrates the expressive power of our proposed model, showing that it can effectively model both classical parametric SDEs and some real datasets with distribution shifts.
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spellingShingle Variational Neural Stochastic Differential Equations with Change Points
El-Laham, Yousef
Sun, Zhongchang
Zhu, Haibei
Balch, Tucker
Vyetrenko, Svitlana
Machine Learning
In this work, we explore modeling change points in time-series data using neural stochastic differential equations (neural SDEs). We propose a novel model formulation and training procedure based on the variational autoencoder (VAE) framework for modeling time-series as a neural SDE. Unlike existing algorithms training neural SDEs as VAEs, our proposed algorithm only necessitates a Gaussian prior of the initial state of the latent stochastic process, rather than a Wiener process prior on the entire latent stochastic process. We develop two methodologies for modeling and estimating change points in time-series data with distribution shifts. Our iterative algorithm alternates between updating neural SDE parameters and updating the change points based on either a maximum likelihood-based approach or a change point detection algorithm using the sequential likelihood ratio test. We provide a theoretical analysis of this proposed change point detection scheme. Finally, we present an empirical evaluation that demonstrates the expressive power of our proposed model, showing that it can effectively model both classical parametric SDEs and some real datasets with distribution shifts.
title Variational Neural Stochastic Differential Equations with Change Points
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.00635