A Variational Inference Approach to Learning Multivariate Wold Processes
Temporal point-processes are often used for mathematical modeling of sequences of discrete events with asynchronous timestamps. We focus on a class of temporal point-process models called multivariate Wold processes (MWP). These processes are well suited to model real-world communication dynamics. Statistical inference on such processes often requires learning their corresponding parameters using a set of observed timestamps. In this work, we relax some of the restrictive modeling assumptions made in the state-of-the-art and introduce a Bayesian approach for inferring the parameters of MWP. We develop a computationally efficient variational inference algorithm that allows scaling up the approach to high-dimensional processes and long sequences of observations. Our experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that our proposed algorithm outperforms existing methods.
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Etesami, J., Trouleau, W., Kiyavash, N., Grossglauser, M., & Thiran, P. (2021). A Variational Inference Approach to Learning Multivariate Wold Processes. 24Th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (Aistats), Proceedings of Machine Learning Research; 130. 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AISTATS), San Diego, California, USA. https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/175919
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