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Robust Quickest Change Detection for Unnormalized Models

Methodology 2023-06-09 v1 Signal Processing

Abstract

Detecting an abrupt and persistent change in the underlying distribution of online data streams is an important problem in many applications. This paper proposes a new robust score-based algorithm called RSCUSUM, which can be applied to unnormalized models and addresses the issue of unknown post-change distributions. RSCUSUM replaces the Kullback-Leibler divergence with the Fisher divergence between pre- and post-change distributions for computational efficiency in unnormalized statistical models and introduces a notion of the ``least favorable'' distribution for robust change detection. The algorithm and its theoretical analysis are demonstrated through simulation studies.

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@article{arxiv.2306.05091,
  title  = {Robust Quickest Change Detection for Unnormalized Models},
  author = {Suya Wu and Enmao Diao and Taposh Banerjee and Jie Ding and Vahid Tarokh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05091},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted for the 39th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2023). arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2302.00250

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