Non-stationary continuous dynamic Bayesian networks

Publication Name
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Publisher
Curran Associates
ISBN
9781605603520,
Abstract
Dynamic Bayesian networks have been applied widely to reconstruct the structure of regulatory processes from time series data. The standard approach is based on the assumption of a homogeneous Markov chain, which is not valid in many real-world scenarios. Recent research efforts addressing this shortcoming have considered undirected graphs, directed graphs for discretized data, or over-flexible models that lack any information sharing between time series segments. In the present article, we propose a non-stationary dynamic Bayesian network for coninuous data, in which parameters are allowed to vary between segments, and in which a common network structure provides essential information sharing across segments. Our model is based on a Bayesian change-point process, and we apply the allocation sampler to infer the number and location of the change-points.
Year
2009
Category
Book Chapter