Discovering group dynamics in synchronous time series via hierarchical recurrent switching-state models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14973v1
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2024 16:06:01 GMT
• Title: Discovering group dynamics in synchronous time series via hierarchical recurrent switching-state models
• Authors: Michael Wojnowicz, Preetish Rath, Eric Miller, Jeffrey Miller, Clifford Hancock, Meghan O'Donovan, Seth Elkin-Frankston, Thaddeus Brunye, and Michael C. Hughes
• Abstract summary: We seek to model a collection of time series arising from multiple entities interacting over the same time period. Recent work focused on modeling individual time series is inadequate for our intended applications, where collective system-level behavior influences the trajectories of individual entities. We employ a latent system-level discrete state chain that drives latent entity-level chains which in turn govern the dynamics of each observed time series.
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• Abstract: We seek to model a collection of time series arising from multiple entities interacting over the same time period. Recent work focused on modeling individual time series is inadequate for our intended applications, where collective system-level behavior influences the trajectories of individual entities. To address such problems, we present a new hierarchical switching-state model that can be trained in an unsupervised fashion to simultaneously explain both system-level and individual-level dynamics. We employ a latent system-level discrete state Markov chain that drives latent entity-level chains which in turn govern the dynamics of each observed time series. Feedback from the observations to the chains at both the entity and system levels improves flexibility via context-dependent state transitions. Our hierarchical switching recurrent dynamical models can be learned via closed-form variational coordinate ascent updates to all latent chains that scale linearly in the number of individual time series. This is asymptotically no more costly than fitting separate models for each entity. Experiments on synthetic and real datasets show that our model can produce better forecasts of future entity behavior than existing methods. Moreover, the availability of latent state chains at both the entity and system level enables interpretation of group dynamics.

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