Title
Consistency of functional learning methods based on derivatives
Abstract
In some real world applications, such as spectrometry, functional models achieve better predictive performances if they work on the derivatives of order m of their inputs rather than on the original functions. As a consequence, the use of derivatives is a common practice in Functional Data Analysis, despite a lack of theoretical guarantees on the asymptotically achievable performances of a derivative based model. In this paper, we show that a smoothing spline approach can be used to preprocess multivariate observations obtained by sampling functions on a discrete and finite sampling grid in a way that leads to a consistent scheme on the original infinite dimensional functional problem. This work extends (Mas and Pumo, 2009) to nonparametric approaches and incomplete knowledge. To be more precise, the paper tackles two difficulties in a nonparametric framework: the information loss due to the use of the derivatives instead of the original functions and the information loss due to the fact that the functions are observed through a discrete sampling and are thus also unperfectly known: the use of a smoothing spline based approach solves these two problems. Finally, the proposed approach is tested on two real world datasets and the approach is experimentaly proven to be a good solution in the case of noisy functional predictors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1016/j.patrec.2011.03.001
Pattern Recognition Letters
Keywords
Field
DocType
rkhs,sampling function,discrete sampling,smoothing spline approach,functional data analysis,noisy functional predictor,infinite dimensional functional problem,original function,derivatives,functional model,finite sampling grid,statistical learning,information loss,functional learning method,consistency,smoothing splines,svm,smoothing spline
Functional data analysis,Spline (mathematics),Artificial intelligence,Pattern recognition,Smoothing spline,Algorithm,Nonparametric statistics,Sampling (statistics),Kernel method,Reproducing kernel Hilbert space,Machine learning,Mathematics,Grid
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
8
Pattern Recognition Letters
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.43
15
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
fabrice rossi160353.90
Nathalie Villa-Vialaneix27210.94