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Title:Temporal Hidden Hopfield Models
Authors: Felix Agakov ; David Barber
Date:Nov 2002
Abstract:
Many popular probabilistic models for temporal sequences assume simple hidden dynamics or low dimensionality of discrete variables. For higher dimensional discrete hidden variables, recourse is often made to approximate mean field theories, which to date have been applied to models with only simple hidden unit dynamics. We consider a class of models in which the discrete hidden space is defined by parallel dynamics of densely connected high-dimensional stochastic Hopfield networks. For these Hidden Hopfield Models (HHMs), mean field methods are derived for learning discrete and continuous temporal sequences. We discuss applications of HHMs to classification and reconstruction of non-stationary time series. We also demonstrate a few problems (learning of incomplete binary sequences and reconstruction of 3D occupancy graphs) where distributed discrete hidden space representation may be useful. We show that while these problems cannot be easily solved by other dynamic belief networks, they are efficiently addressed by HHMs.
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2002 by The University of Edinburgh. All Rights Reserved
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@Misc{EDI-INF-RR-0156,
author = { Felix Agakov and David Barber },
title = {Temporal Hidden Hopfield Models},
year = 2002,
month = {Nov},
}


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