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Publication Detail
Hilbert Space Embeddings of Predictive State Representations
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Publication Type:Conference
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Authors:Boots B, Gordon G, Gretton A
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Publication date:26/09/2013
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Keywords:cs.LG, cs.LG, stat.ML
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Notes:Appears in Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI2013)
Abstract
Predictive State Representations (PSRs) are an expressive class of models for
controlled stochastic processes. PSRs represent state as a set of predictions
of future observable events. Because PSRs are defined entirely in terms of
observable data, statistically consistent estimates of PSR parameters can be
learned efficiently by manipulating moments of observed training data. Most
learning algorithms for PSRs have assumed that actions and observations are
finite with low cardinality. In this paper, we generalize PSRs to infinite sets
of observations and actions, using the recent concept of Hilbert space
embeddings of distributions. The essence is to represent the state as a
nonparametric conditional embedding operator in a Reproducing Kernel Hilbert
Space (RKHS) and leverage recent work in kernel methods to estimate, predict,
and update the representation. We show that these Hilbert space embeddings of
PSRs are able to gracefully handle continuous actions and observations, and
that our learned models outperform competing system identification algorithms
on several prediction benchmarks.
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