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Modeling Interacting Time-Series Signals
Many real-life systems consist of multiple information signals which might be potentially interacting with each other over time. These interactions can be estimated/modeled using techniques like Pearson Correlation (PC), Time lagged Cross Correlation (TLCC) and windowed TLCC, Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), and coupled Hidden Markov Model (cHMM). These techniques, excluding cHMM, cannot capture non-linear interactions and does not work well with multi-variate data. Although cHMM can capture the interactions effectively, it is bound by Markov property and other assumptions like latent variables, prior distributions, etc. These influence the performance of the model significantly. Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is a variant of Neural Networks which can be used to model time-series data. RNN based architectures are the new state-of-the-art for complex tasks like machine translation. In this research, we explore techniques to extend RNNs to model interacting time-series signals. We propose architectures with coupling and attention mechanism. We evaluate the performance of the models on synthetically generated and real-life data sets. We compare the performance of our proposed architectures to similar ones in the literature. The goal of this exercise is to determine the most effective architecture to capture interaction information in the given interrelated time-series signals
An algebraic approach to product-form stationary distributions for some reaction networks
Exact results for product-form stationary distributions of Markov chains are
of interest in different fields. In stochastic reaction networks (CRNs),
stationary distributions are mostly known in special cases where they are of
product-form. However, there is no full characterization of the classes of
networks whose stationary distributions have product-form. We develop an
algebraic approach to product-form stationary distributions in the framework of
CRNs. Under certain hypotheses on linearity and decomposition of the state
space for conservative ergodic CRNs, this gives sufficient and necessary
algebraic conditions for product-form stationary distributions. Correspondingly
we obtain a semialgebraic subset of the parameter space that captures rates
where, under the corresponding hypotheses, CRNs have product-form. We employ
the developed theory to CRNs and some models of statistical mechanics, besides
sketching the pertinence in other models from applied probability.Comment: Accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical System
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