PAC learning of Probabilistic Automaton based on the Method of Moments
Résumé
Probabilitic Finite Automata (PFA) are gener-ative graphical models that define distributions with latent variables over finite sequences of symbols, a.k.a. stochastic languages. Traditionally , unsupervised learning of PFA is performed through algorithms that iteratively improves the likelihood like the Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. Recently, learning algorithms based on the so-called Method of Moments (MoM) have been proposed as a much faster alternative that comes with PAC-style guarantees. However, these algorithms do not ensure the learnt automata to model a proper distribution , limiting their applicability and preventing them to serve as an initialization to iterative algorithms. In this paper, we propose a new MoM-based algorithm with PAC-style guarantees that learns automata defining proper distributions. We assess its performances on synthetic problems from the PAutomaC challenge and real datasets extracted from Wikipedia against previous MoM-based algorithms and EM algorithm.
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Apprentissage [cs.LG]Origine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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