Exponentially Fading Memory Signature

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Main Authors: Jaber, Eduardo Abi, Sotnikov, Dimitri
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Published: 2025
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author Jaber, Eduardo Abi
Sotnikov, Dimitri
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Sotnikov, Dimitri
contents We introduce the exponentially fading memory (EFM) signature, a time-invariant transformation of an infinite (possibly rough) path that serves as a mean-reverting analogue of the classical path signature. We construct the EFM-signature via rough path theory, carefully adapted to accommodate improper integration from minus infinity. The EFM-signature retains many of the key algebraic and analytical properties of classical signatures, including a suitably modified Chen identity, the linearization property, path-determinacy, and the universal approximation property. From the probabilistic perspective, the EFM-signature provides a "stationarized" representation, making it particularly well-suited for time-series analysis and signal processing overcoming the shortcomings of the standard signature. In particular, the EFM-signature of time-augmented Brownian motion evolves as a group-valued Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We establish its stationarity, Markov property, and exponential ergodicity in the Wasserstein distance, and we derive an explicit formula à la Fawcett for its expected value in terms of Magnus expansions. We also study linear combinations of EFM-signature elements and the computation of associated characteristic functions in terms of a mean-reverting infinite dimensional Riccati equation.
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Jaber, Eduardo Abi
Sotnikov, Dimitri
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We introduce the exponentially fading memory (EFM) signature, a time-invariant transformation of an infinite (possibly rough) path that serves as a mean-reverting analogue of the classical path signature. We construct the EFM-signature via rough path theory, carefully adapted to accommodate improper integration from minus infinity. The EFM-signature retains many of the key algebraic and analytical properties of classical signatures, including a suitably modified Chen identity, the linearization property, path-determinacy, and the universal approximation property. From the probabilistic perspective, the EFM-signature provides a "stationarized" representation, making it particularly well-suited for time-series analysis and signal processing overcoming the shortcomings of the standard signature. In particular, the EFM-signature of time-augmented Brownian motion evolves as a group-valued Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process. We establish its stationarity, Markov property, and exponential ergodicity in the Wasserstein distance, and we derive an explicit formula à la Fawcett for its expected value in terms of Magnus expansions. We also study linear combinations of EFM-signature elements and the computation of associated characteristic functions in terms of a mean-reverting infinite dimensional Riccati equation.
title Exponentially Fading Memory Signature
topic Probability
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03700