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Model-Based and Model-Free point prediction algorithms for locally stationary random fields

Methodology 2022-12-07 v1

Abstract

The Model-free Prediction Principle has been successfully applied to general regression problems, as well as problems involving stationary and locally stationary time series. In this paper we demonstrate how Model-Free Prediction can be applied to handle random fields that are only locally stationary, i.e., they can be assumed to be stationary only across a limited part over their entire region of definition. We construct one-step-ahead point predictors and compare the performance of Model-free to Model-based prediction using models that incorporate a trend and/or heteroscedasticity. Both aspects of the paper, Model-free and Model-based, are novel in the context of random fields that are locally (but not globally) stationary. We demonstrate the application of our Model-based and Model-free point prediction methods to synthetic data as well as images from the CIFAR-10 dataset and in the latter case show that our best Model-free point prediction results outperform those obtained using Model-based prediction.

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@article{arxiv.2212.03079,
  title  = {Model-Based and Model-Free point prediction algorithms for locally stationary random fields},
  author = {Srinjoy Das and Yiwen Zhang and Dimitris N. Politis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.03079},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1712.02383

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