Autocorrelation Matters: Understanding the Role of Initialization Schemes for State Space Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19455v1
• Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2024 03:55:19 GMT
• Title: Autocorrelation Matters: Understanding the Role of Initialization Schemes for State Space Models
• Authors: Fusheng Liu, Qianxiao Li,
• Abstract summary: Current methods for initializing state space model (SSM) parameters rely on the HiPPO framework. We take a further step to investigate the roles of SSM schemes by considering the autocorrelation of input sequences. We show that the imaginary part of the eigenvalues of the SSM state matrix determines the conditioning of SSM optimization problems.
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• Abstract: Current methods for initializing state space model (SSM) parameters primarily rely on the HiPPO framework \citep{gu2023how}, which is based on online function approximation with the SSM kernel basis. However, the HiPPO framework does not explicitly account for the effects of the temporal structures of input sequences on the optimization of SSMs. In this paper, we take a further step to investigate the roles of SSM initialization schemes by considering the autocorrelation of input sequences. Specifically, we: (1) rigorously characterize the dependency of the SSM timescale on sequence length based on sequence autocorrelation; (2) find that with a proper timescale, allowing a zero real part for the eigenvalues of the SSM state matrix mitigates the curse of memory while still maintaining stability at initialization; (3) show that the imaginary part of the eigenvalues of the SSM state matrix determines the conditioning of SSM optimization problems, and uncover an approximation-estimation tradeoff when training SSMs with a specific class of target functions.

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