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Poster

Seq2Tens: An Efficient Representation of Sequences by Low-Rank Tensor Projections

Csaba Toth · Patric Bonnier · Harald Oberhauser

Keywords: [ representation learning ] [ classification ] [ time series ] [ sequential data ] [ low-rank tensors ] [ generative modelling ]


Abstract:

Sequential data such as time series, video, or text can be challenging to analyse as the ordered structure gives rise to complex dependencies. At the heart of this is non-commutativity, in the sense that reordering the elements of a sequence can completely change its meaning. We use a classical mathematical object -- the free algebra -- to capture this non-commutativity. To address the innate computational complexity of this algebra, we use compositions of low-rank tensor projections. This yields modular and scalable building blocks that give state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks such as multivariate time series classification, mortality prediction and generative models for video.

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