Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems with Time-varying Transition Dynamics

📅 2026-09-01
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本文针对计数时间序列中过渡动态捕捉不足的问题,提出了一种具有时变转移核的Poisson-Gamma动态系统(TV-PGDS),并通过设计特定的Dirichlet马尔可夫链来适应结构突变。
📝 Abstract
Bayesian methodologies for handling count-valued time series have gained prominence due to their ability to infer interpretable latent structures and to estimate uncertainties. Among these Bayesian models, Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems (PGDSs) are proven to be effective in capturing the evolving dynamics underlying observed count sequences. However, the state-of-the-art PGDS still falls short in capturing the transition dynamics that are commonly observed in real-world count time series. To mitigate this limitation, a PGDS with time-varying transition kernel (TV-PGDS), is proposed to allow the underlying transition matrices to evolve over time. Three specifically-designed Dirichlet Markov chains (Dir-Dir, Dir-Gam-Dir, PR-Gam-Dir) are constructed to accommodate heterogeneous structural mutations within these dependencies. Leveraging Dirichlet-Multinomial-Beta data augmentation techniques, a fully-conjugate and efficient Gibbs sampler is developed to perform posterior simulation. Experiments show that, in comparison with related models, the proposed PGDS achieves improved predictive performance due to its capacity to learn time-varying dependency structure captured by the time-evolving transition matrices.
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Poisson-Gamma Dynamical Systems
time-varying transition dynamics
count-valued time series
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time-varying transition kernel
Dirichlet Markov chains
Gibbs sampler
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Jiahao Wang
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Arizona, US
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Yijun Wang
School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, China
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Nan Fang
School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, China
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Sikun Yang
School of Computing and Information Technology, Great Bay University, China