Metric on random dynamical systems with vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces

06/17/2019
by   Isao Ishikawa, et al.
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The development of a metric on structural data-generating mechanisms is fundamental in machine learning and the related fields. In this paper, we consider a general framework to construct metrics on random nonlinear dynamical systems, which are defined with the Perron-Frobenius operators in vector-valued reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces (vvRKHSs). Here, vvRKHSs are employed to design mathematically manageable metrics and also to introduce L^2(Ω)-valued kernels, which are necessary to handle the randomness in systems. Our metric is a natural extension of existing metrics for deterministic systems, and can give a specification of the kernel maximal mean discrepancy of random processes. Moreover, by considering the time-wise independence of random processes, we discuss the connection between our metric and the independence criteria with kernels such as Hilbert-Schmidt independence criteria. We empirically illustrate our metric with synthetic data, and evaluate it in the context of the independence test for random processes.

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