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Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a new technique for extracting slowly varying features from a quickly varying signal. It is shown here that SFA can be applied to nonstationary time series to estimate a single underlying driving force with…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laurenz Wiskott

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a method for extracting slowly varying driving forces from quickly varying nonstationary time series. We show here that it is possible for SFA to detect a component which is even slower than the driving force…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-11-24 Wolfgang Konen , Patrick Koch

Slow feature analysis (SFA), as a method for learning slowly varying features in classification and signal analysis, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Recent probabilistic extensions to SFA learn effective representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Vishal Rishi

We propose Power Slow Feature Analysis, a gradient-based method to extract temporally slow features from a high-dimensional input stream that varies on a faster time-scale, as a variant of Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) that allows end-to-end…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-19 Merlin Schüler , Hlynur Davíð Hlynsson , Laurenz Wiskott

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is a method for extracting slowly varying features from a quickly varying multidimensional signal. An open source Matlab-implementation sfa-tk makes SFA easily useable. We show here that under certain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2009-12-08 Wolfgang Konen

Slow Feature Analysis (SFA) extracts features representing the underlying causes of changes within a temporally coherent high-dimensional raw sensory input signal. Our novel incremental version of SFA (IncSFA) combines incremental Principal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-10-11 Varun Raj Kompella , Matthew Luciw , Juergen Schmidhuber

Visual navigation requires a whole range of capabilities. A crucial one of these is the ability of an agent to determine its own location and heading in an environment. Prior works commonly assume this information as given, or use methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Moritz Lange , Raphael C. Engelhardt , Wolfgang Konen , Laurenz Wiskott

Unlike conventional frame-based sensors, event-based visual sensors output information through spikes at a high temporal resolution. By only encoding changes in pixel intensity, they showcase a low-power consuming, low-latency approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-19 Rohan Ghosh , Anupam Gupta , Siyi Tang , Alcimar Soares , Nitish Thakor

In this paper, we show that slow feature analysis (SFA), a common time series decomposition method, naturally fits into the flow-based models (FBM) framework, a type of invertible neural latent variable models. Building upon recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Edouard Pineau , Sébastien Razakarivony , Thomas Bonald

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised method for extracting representations from time series data. The successor representation (SR) is a method for representing states in a Markov decision process (MDP) based on transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Eddie Seabrook , Laurenz Wiskott

Slow Feature Analysis is a unsupervised representation learning method that extracts slowly varying features from temporal data and can be used as a basis for subsequent reinforcement learning. Often, the behavior that generates the data on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Merlin Schüler , Eddie Seabrook , Laurenz Wiskott

Dynamic textures exist in various forms, e.g., fire, smoke, and traffic jams, but recognizing dynamic texture is challenging due to the complex temporal variations. In this paper, we present a novel approach stemmed from slow feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-12 Jie Miao , Xiangmin Xu , Xiaofen Xing , Dacheng Tao

Change detection has been a hotspot in remote sensing technology for a long time. With the increasing availability of multi-temporal remote sensing images, numerous change detection algorithms have been proposed. Among these methods, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Bo Du , Lixiang Ru , Chen Wu , Liangpei Zhang

Slow feature analysis (SFA) is an unsupervised-learning algorithm that extracts slowly varying features from a multi-dimensional time series. A supervised extension to SFA for classification and regression is graph-based SFA (GSFA). GSFA is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-18 Alberto N. Escalante-B. , Laurenz Wiskott

Every organism in an environment, whether biological, robotic or virtual, must be able to predict certain aspects of its environment in order to survive or perform whatever task is intended. It needs a model that is capable of estimating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Stefan Richthofer , Laurenz Wiskott

Extended Predictable Feature Analysis (PFAx) [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2017] is an extension of PFA [Richthofer and Wiskott, 2015] that allows generating a goal-directed control signal of an agent whose dynamics has previously been learned…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Stefan Richthofer , Laurenz Wiskott

Random-feature-based attention (RFA) is an efficient approximation of softmax attention with linear runtime and space complexity. However, the approximation gap between RFA and conventional softmax attention is not well studied. Built upon…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Lin Zheng , Jianbo Yuan , Chong Wang , Lingpeng Kong

The slowness principle is a concept inspired by the visual cortex of the brain. It postulates that the underlying generative factors of a quickly varying sensory signal change on a slower time scale. Unsupervised learning of intermediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Oliver Struckmeier , Kshitij Tiwari , Ville Kyrki

Stability guarantees have emerged as a principled way to evaluate feature attributions, but existing certification methods rely on heavily smoothed classifiers and often produce conservative guarantees. To address these limitations, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Helen Jin , Anton Xue , Weiqiu You , Surbhi Goel , Eric Wong

Transformers are state-of-the-art models for a variety of sequence modeling tasks. At their core is an attention function which models pairwise interactions between the inputs at every timestep. While attention is powerful, it does not…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Hao Peng , Nikolaos Pappas , Dani Yogatama , Roy Schwartz , Noah A. Smith , Lingpeng Kong
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