Title
Memory In Memory: A Predictive Neural Network For Learning Higher-Order Non-Stationarity From Spatiotemporal Dynamics
Abstract
Natural spatiotemporal processes can be highly non stationary in many ways, e.g. the low-level non-stationarity such as spatial correlations or temporal dependencies of local pixel values; and the high-level variations such as the accumulation, deformation or dissipation of radar echoes in precipitation forecasting. From Cramer's Decomposition [4], any non-stationary process can be decomposed into deterministic, time-variant polynomials, plus a zero-mean stochastic term. By applying differencing operations appropriately, we may turn time-variant polynomials into a constant, making the deterministic component predictable.However, most previous recurrent neural networks for spatiotemporal prediction do not use the differential signals effectively, and their relatively simple state transition functions prevent them from learning too complicated variations in spacetime. We propose the Memory In Memory (MIM) networks and corresponding recurrent blocks for this purpose. The MIM blocks exploit the differential signals between adjacent recurrent states to model the non-stationary and approximately stationary properties in spatiotemporal dynamics with two cascaded, self-renewed memory modules. By stacking multiple MIM blocks, we could potentially handle higher-order non-stationarity. The MIM networks achieve the state-of-the-art results on four spatiotemporal prediction tasks across both synthetic and real-world datasets. We believe that the general idea of this work can be potentially applied to other time-series forecasting tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/CVPR.2019.00937
2019 IEEE/CVF CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION (CVPR 2019)
Field
DocType
Volume
Radar,Polynomial,Dissipation,Spacetime,Recurrent neural network,Algorithm,Exploit,Artificial intelligence,Pixel,Artificial neural network,Machine learning,Mathematics
Journal
abs/1811.07490
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1063-6919
4
0.41
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yunbo Wang1366.91
Jianjin Zhang261.88
Hongyu Zhu342.44
Mingsheng Long4142155.15
Jianmin Wang52446156.05
Philip S. Yu6306703474.16