Bio
David Duvenaud is an assistant professor in computer science at the University of Toronto. His research focuses on continuous-time models, latent-variable models, and deep learning. His postdoc was done at Harvard University, and his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge. David also co-founded Invenia, an energy forecasting and trading company.
Abstract
Much real-world data is sampled at irregular intervals, but most time series models require regularly-sampled data. Continuous-time models address this problem, but until now only deterministic (ODE) models or linear-Gaussian models were efficiently trainable with millions of parameters. We construct a scalable algorithm for computing gradients of samples from stochastic differential equations (SDEs), and for gradient-based stochastic variational inference in function space, all with the use of adaptive black-box SDE solvers. This allows us to fit a new family of richly-parameterized distributions over time series. We apply latent SDEs to motion capture data, and provide an open-source PyTorch library for fitting large SDE models.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.01328
