A Bayesian Approach to Tracking with Kernel Recursive Least-Squares

Miguel Lázaro-Gredilla, Steven Van Vaerenbergh and Ignacio Santamaría2
{miguellg, steven, nacho}@gtas.dicom.unican.es
Department of Communications Engineering
University of Cantabria, Spain


Abstract:

In this paper we introduce a kernel-based recursive least-squares (KRLS) algorithm that is able to track nonlinear, time-varying relationships in data. To this purpose we first derive the standard KRLS equations from a Bayesian perspective (including a principled approach to pruning) and then take advantage of this framework to incorporate forgetting in a consistent way, thus enabling the algorithm to perform tracking in non-stationary scenarios. In addition to this tracking ability, the resulting algorithm has a number of appealing properties: It is online, requires a fixed amount of memory and computation per time step and incorporates regularization in a natural manner. We include experimental results that support the theory as well as illustrate the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.


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kernel recursive-least squares, tracking, Bayesian inference, adaptive filtering, forgetting.
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Last modified: 2011-09-20