Efficient Mixed-Order Hidden Markov Model Inference
dc.contributor.advisor | Du Preez, J. A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Schwardt, Ludwig | en_ZA |
dc.contributor.other | University of Stellenbosch. Faculty of Engineering. Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-04-10T10:08:18Z | en_ZA |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-01T08:19:01Z | |
dc.date.available | 2008-04-10T10:08:18Z | en_ZA |
dc.date.available | 2010-06-01T08:19:01Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2007-12 | |
dc.description | Thesis (PhD (Electrical and Electronic Engineering))--University of Stellenbosch, 2007. | |
dc.description.abstract | Higher-order Markov models are more powerful than first-order models, but suffer from an exponential increase in model parameters with order, which leads to data scarcity problems during training. A more efficient approach is to use mixed-order Markov models, which model data sequences with contexts of different lengths. This study proposes two algorithms for inferring mixed-order Markov chains and hidden Markov models (HMMs), respectively. The basis of these algorithms is the prediction suffix tree (PST), an efficient representation of a mixed-order Markov chain. The smallest encoded context tree (SECT) algorithm constructs PSTs from data, based on the minimum description length principle. It has no user-specifiable parameters to tune, and will expand the depth of the resulting PST as far as the data set allows it, making it a self-bounded algorithm. It is also faster than the original PST inference algorithm. The hidden SECT algorithm replaces the underlying Markov chain of an HMM with a prediction suffix tree, which is inferred using SECT. The algorithm is efficient and integrates well with standard techniques. The properties of the SECT and hidden SECT algorithms are verified on synthetic data. The hidden SECT algorithm is also compared with a fixed-order HMM training algorithm on an automatic language recognition task, where the resulting mixed-order HMMs are shown to be smaller and train faster than the fixed-order models, for similar classification accuracies. | en_ZA |
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dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1340 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_ZA |
dc.publisher | Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch | |
dc.rights.holder | University of Stellenbosch | |
dc.subject | Theses -- Electronic engineering | en_ZA |
dc.subject | Dissertations -- Electronic engineering | en_ZA |
dc.subject.lcsh | Hidden Markov models | en_ZA |
dc.subject.other | Electrical and Electronic Engineering | en_ZA |
dc.title | Efficient Mixed-Order Hidden Markov Model Inference | en_ZA |
dc.type | Thesis | en_ZA |