HiPPO-Prophecy: State-Space Models can Provably Learn Dynamical Systems in Context
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2407.09375v2
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 15:34:25 GMT
- Title: HiPPO-Prophecy: State-Space Models can Provably Learn Dynamical Systems in Context
- Authors: Federico Arangath Joseph, Kilian Konstantin Haefeli, Noah Liniger, Caglar Gulcehre,
- Abstract summary: This work explores the in-context learning capabilities of State Space Models (SSMs)
We introduce a novel weight construction for SSMs, enabling them to predict the next state of any dynamical system.
We extend the HiPPO framework to demonstrate that continuous SSMs can approximate the derivative of any input signal.
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- Abstract: This work explores the in-context learning capabilities of State Space Models (SSMs) and presents, to the best of our knowledge, the first theoretical explanation of a possible underlying mechanism. We introduce a novel weight construction for SSMs, enabling them to predict the next state of any dynamical system after observing previous states without parameter fine-tuning. This is accomplished by extending the HiPPO framework to demonstrate that continuous SSMs can approximate the derivative of any input signal. Specifically, we find an explicit weight construction for continuous SSMs and provide an asymptotic error bound on the derivative approximation. The discretization of this continuous SSM subsequently yields a discrete SSM that predicts the next state. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our parameterization empirically. This work should be an initial step toward understanding how sequence models based on SSMs learn in context.
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