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Zacharia Issa
dblp:304/8931
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1ranked-venue papers
1as first author
1since 2021 · last 2023
—ORCID · none
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1 · 1 first-author · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Artificial intelligence
1 paper |
Kernel, tree and ensemble methods · 67% Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning · 33% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods
kernel methods |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Probabilistic and Bayesian machine learning › continuous-time model › stochastic differential equations
neural SDE |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023 |
Machine learning › Kernel, tree and ensemble methods › kernel methods
signature kernel |
0.7 | 1 | 2023 | Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scores · NeurIPS 2023 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
signature kernel · 0.7neural SDE · 0.7adjoint-based backpropagation · 0.7
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Non-adversarial training of Neural SDEs with signature kernel scoresabstractNeural SDEs are continuous-time generative models for sequential data. State-of-the-art performance for irregular time series generation has been previously obtained by training these models adversarially as GANs. However, as typical for GAN architectures, training is notoriously unstable, often suffers from mode collapse, and requires specialised techniques such as weight clipping and gradient penalty to mitigate these issues. In this paper, we introduce a novel class of scoring rules on pathspace based on signature kernels and use them as objective for training Neural SDEs non-adversarially. By showing strict properness of such kernel scores and consistency of the corresponding estimators, we provide existence and uniqueness guarantees for the minimiser. With this formulation, evaluating the generator-discriminator pair amounts to solving a system of linear path-dependent PDEs which allows for memory-efficient adjoint-based backpropagation. Moreover, because the proposed kernel scores are well-defined for paths with values in infinite dimensional spaces of functions, our framework can be easily extended to generate spatiotemporal data. Our procedure significantly outperforms alternative ways of training Neural SDEs on a variety of tasks including the simulation of rough volatility models, the conditional probabilistic forecasts of real-world forex pairs where the conditioning variable is an observed past trajectory, and the mesh-free generation of limit order book dynamics. Zacharia Issa, Blanka Horvath, Maud Lemercier, Cristopher Salvi |
NeurIPS | 1 |