Title
How To Monitor And Mitigate Stair-Casing In L1 Trend Filtering
Abstract
In this paper we study the estimation of changing trends in time-series using l(1) trend filtering. This method generalizes 1D Total Variation (TV) denoising for detection of step changes in means to detecting changes in trends, and it relies on a convex optimization problem for which there are very efficient numerical algorithms. It is known that TV denoising suffers from the so-called stair-case effect, which leads to detecting false change points. The objective of this paper is to show that l(1) trend filtering also suffers from a certain staircase problem. The analysis is based on an interpretation of the dual variables of the optimization problem in the method as integrated random walk. We discuss consistency conditions for l(1) trend filtering, how to monitor their fulfillment, and how to modify the algorithm to avoid the stair-case false detection problem.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1109/ICASSP.2015.7178711
2015 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING (ICASSP)
Keywords
Field
DocType
l(1) trend filtering, generalized lasso, TV denoising, Fused Lasso, change point detection
Noise reduction,False detection,Mathematical optimization,Random walk,Computer science,Casing,Computational mathematics,Filter (signal processing),Algorithm,Convex optimization,Optimization problem
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
abs/1412.0607
1520-6149
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
2
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristian R. Rojas125243.97
Bo Wahlberg221040.68