A variational formulation for GTM through time: Theoretical foundations

Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) is a latent variable model that, in its standard version, was conceived to provide clustering and visualization of multivariate, real-valued, i.i.d. data. It was also extended to deal with non-i.i.d. data such as multivariate time series in a variant called GTM T...

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Autores: Olier Caparroso, Iván, Vellido Alcacena, Alfredo|||0000-0002-9843-1911
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2007
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/86323
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/86323
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Variational
GTM through time
Multivariate time series
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Intel·ligència artificial
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Sumario:Generative Topographic Mapping (GTM) is a latent variable model that, in its standard version, was conceived to provide clustering and visualization of multivariate, real-valued, i.i.d. data. It was also extended to deal with non-i.i.d. data such as multivariate time series in a variant called GTM Through Time (GTMTT), defined as a constrained Hidden Markov Model (HMM). In this technical report, we provide the theoretical foundations of the reformulation of GTM-TT within the Variational Bayesian framework. This approach, in its application, should naturally handle the presence of noise in the time series, helping to avert the problem of data overfitting.