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Volterra series are especially useful for nonlinear system identification, also thanks to their capability to approximate a broad range of input-output maps. However, their identification from a finite set of data is hard, due to the curse…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Alberto Dalla Libera , Ruggero Carli , Gianluigi Pillonetto

In this paper, the regularization approach introduced recently for nonparametric estimation of linear systems is extended to the estimation of nonlinear systems modelled as Volterra series. The kernels of order higher than one, representing…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-04-30 Georgios Birpoutsoukis , Anna Marconato , John Lataire , Johan Schoukens

Volterra analysis and its variants have long been prominent among methods for modeling multi-input non-linear systems. The product of Volterra analysis, the Volterra kernels, are particularly suited to quantifying intra- and inter-input…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-12-08 Richard T. Miller , Vladimir Y. Vildavski , Anthony M. Norcia

There have been increasing interests on the Volterra series identification with the kernel-based regularization method. The major difficulties are on the kernel design and efficiency of the corresponding implementation. In this paper, we…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-28 Yu Xu , Biqiang Mu , Tianshi Chen

Volterra series representation is a powerful mathematical model for nonlinear circuits. However, the difficulties in determining higher-order Volterra kernels limited its broader applications. In this work, a systematic approach that…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2016-05-13 Xiaoyan Y. Z. Xiong , Li Jun Jiang , Jose E. Schutt-Aine , Weng Cho Chew

We introduce Coarse-Grained Nonlinear Dynamics, an efficient and universal parameterization of nonlinear system dynamics based on the Volterra series expansion. These models require a number of parameters only quasilinear in the system's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-15 Span Spanbauer , Ian Hunter

Modeling nonlinear systems with Volterra series is challenging because the number of kernel coefficients grows exponentially with the model order. This work introduces Bayesian Tensor Network Volterra kernel machines (BTN-V), extending the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-26 Afra Kilic , Kim Batselier

The Volterra integral-functional series is the classic approach for nonlinear black box dynamical systems modeling. It is widely employed in many domains including radiophysics, aerodynamics, electronic and electrical engineering and many…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Denis Sidorov , Aleksandr Tynda , Vladislav Muratov , Eugeny Yanitsky

The Volterra series can be used to model a large subset of nonlinear, dynamic systems. A major drawback is the number of coefficients required model such systems. In order to reduce the number of required coefficients, Laguerre polynomials…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-10-06 Brett W. Israelsen , Dale A. Smith

This study introduces an approach for modeling unsteady transonic aerodynamics within a parametric space, using Volterra series to capture aerodynamic responses and machine learning to enable interpolation. The first- and second-order…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Gabriele Immordino , Andrea Da Ronch , Marcello Righi

We are concerned with nonparametric hypothesis testing of time series functionals. It is known that the popular autoregressive sieve bootstrap is, in general, not valid for statistics whose (asymptotic) distribution depends on moments of…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-21 Natalia Sirotko-Sibirskaya , Matthias O. Franz , Thorsten Dickhaus

Most of existing results on regularized system identification focus on regularized impulse response estimation. Since the impulse response model is a special case of orthonormal basis functions, it is interesting to consider if it is…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Tianshi Chen , Lennart Ljung

We propose the numerical methods for solution of the weakly regular linear and nonlinear evolutionary (Volterra) integral equation of the first kind. The kernels of such equations have jump discontinuities along the continuous curves…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-24 Ildar Muftahov , Aleksandr Tynda , Denis Sidorov

Providing flexibility and user-interpretability in nonlinear system identification can be achieved by means of block-oriented methods. One of such block-oriented system structures is the parallel Wiener-Hammerstein system, which is a sum of…

Numerical Analysis · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Philippe Dreesen , David Westwick , Johan Schoukens , Mariya Ishteva

A fast simulation framework for stochastic Volterra processes based on Random Fourier Features (RFF) approximation of the kernel is developed. After recalling the main properties of Volterra processes and reviewing existing numerical…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-26 Othmane Zarhali , Nicolas Langrené

The Volterra signature extends the classical path signature by incorporating general matrix-valued kernel into its iterated integral structure, yielding a flexible notion of memory for time series. Its components can be viewed as successive…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Paul P. Hager , Fabian N. Harang , Luca Pelizzari , Samy Tindel

This paper presents an algorithm, Voted Kernel Regularization , that provides the flexibility of using potentially very complex kernel functions such as predictors based on much higher-degree polynomial kernels, while benefitting from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Corinna Cortes , Prasoon Goyal , Vitaly Kuznetsov , Mehryar Mohri

Higher-order learning is fundamentally rooted in exploiting compositional features. It clearly hinges on enriching the representation by more elaborate interactions of the data which, in turn, tends to increase the model complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Haoyu Yun , Hamid Krim , Yufang Bao

The Volterra Tensor Network lifts the curse of dimensionality for truncated, discrete times Volterra models, enabling scalable representation of highly nonlinear system. This scalability comes at the cost of introducing randomness through…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Eva Memmel , Kim Batselier

This paper introduces a method for the nonparametric Bayesian learning of nonlinear operators, through the use of the Volterra series with kernels represented using Gaussian processes (GPs), which we term the nonparametric Volterra kernels…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-06-11 Magnus Ross , Michael T. Smith , Mauricio A. Álvarez
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