Chapter 8 Flashcards
3 broad categories of goals of time series analysis
time series analysis:
- understanding periodicity and trends
- forecasting
- control
> change the course of a temporal pattern
3 components time series analysis can be decomposed to
- periodic variations
> daily, weekly, monthly seasonality
- trend
> how its mean evolves over time
- irregular variations
> after removing periodic and trend
> residuals
what does the concept of stationarity mean in the context of time series analysis?
stationarity:
we call a time series stationary if when its trends and periodic variations are removed and the residuals are constant over time
> both the expected mean and variation (as well as autocorrelation) of a time series is constant
time series analysis:
> what is autocorrelation?
autocorrelation:
autocorrelation with lag lambda measures the correlation between a time series and a shifted variant (by lambda steps) of itself
why can we not use ARMA models to model real time series?
> solution?
in real time series (e.g. mood of bruce) we often observe that they are not stationary
> do not meet assumptions of ARMA
>>> apply differencing to remove e.g. drift in the mean
> this what the ARIMA model does
what is often a disadantage when removing the mean from the data?
it increases the variance
whats the problem with backpropagation in recurrent neural networks?
> solution?
backpropagation does not take time into account
> when including time in the setup the new predictions do not only depend on the inputs but also on the values of the neurons in the previous step
>>> solution: unfold the network throuh time: create an instance of the network for each previous timestep we consider (backpropagation through time)
what is the underlying principle of reservoir computing?
reservoir computing:
> a huge reservoir of fully connected hidden neurons with randomly assigned weights
> weights from input to reservoir are also randomly assigned
> only the weights from the reservoir to the output layer are learned
why are echo state networks a special case of reservoir computing?
in ESN the connections within the reservoir can be cyclic
> this allows to model temporal patterns
ESN: what is the “washout time”?
washout time:
> initialization period that is neither used in the training or test period
> the reservoir/network needs to stabilize first
explain the echo state property
echo state property:
> the effect of a previous state r_i and a previous input x_i on a future state r_i+k should vanish gradually as time passes (k -> infinity) and not persist or even get amplified
explain dynamic systems model
> use them in which case?
dynamic systems models:
> knowledge based models
> represent temporal relationships between attributes and targets by means of differential equations
> assume only numerical states
>>> use those if we have some domain knowledge we want to use
how does simulated annealing work?
> when to use it?
simulated annealing:
> used to tune the parameters of e.g. a dynamic systems model
> make random steps in the parameters state and see whether performance improves
> moves that do not result in better performance can however still be accepted
>>> this helps exploring the whole parametter space
simulated annealing:
> what does the “temperature” refer to?
simulated annealing: temperature
> moves in the parameter space that do not have a positive impact on the error are still accepted with a certain probability
> this probability decreases with running time
>>> “temperature” decreases with search time: the lower the temperature the less we explore the search space
genetic algorithms:
> what is the basic starting point of a genetic algorithm?
genetic algorithm:
a population of candidate solutions, e.g. paramter vectors
> represented by means of binary strings (genotype)
