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- Falck, Tillmann, et al.
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Least-Squares Support Vector Machines for the identification of Wiener-Hammerstein systems
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Ingår i: Control Engineering Practice. - : Elsevier BV. - 0967-0661 .- 1873-6939. ; 20:11, s. 1165-1174
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper considers the identification of Wiener-Hammerstein systems using Least-Squares Support Vector Machines based models. The power of fully black-box NARX-type models is evaluated and compared with models incorporating information about the structure of the systems. For the NARX models it is shown how to extend the kernel-based estimator to large data sets. For the structured model the emphasis is on preserving the convexity of the estimation problem through a suitable relaxation of the original problem. To develop an empirical understanding of the implications of the different model design choices, all considered models are compared on an artificial system under a number of different experimental conditions. The obtained results are then validated on the Wiener-Hammerstein benchmark data set and the final models are presented. It is illustrated that black-box models are a suitable technique for the identification of Wiener-Hammerstein systems. The incorporation of structural information results in significant improvements in modeling performance.
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- Falck, Tillmann, et al.
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Segmentation of Time Series from Nonlinear Dynamical Systems
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 18th IFAC World Congress. - 9783902661937 ; , s. 13209-13214
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Segmentation of time series data is of interest in many applications, as for example in change detection and fault detection. In the area of convex optimization, the sum-of-norms regularization has recently proven useful for segmentation. Proposed formulations handle linear models, like ARX models, but cannot handle nonlinear models. To handle nonlinear dynamics, we propose integrating the sum-of-norms regularization with a least squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) core model. The proposed formulation takes the form of a convex optimization problem with the regularization constant trading off the fit and the number of segments.
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- Mason, L., et al.
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Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD : implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers
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Ingår i: Molecular Autism. - : Springer Nature. - 2040-2392. ; 12
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Background: The neurocognitive mechanisms underlying autism spectrum disorder (ASD) remain unclear. Progress has been largely hampered by small sample sizes, variable age ranges and resulting inconsistent findings. There is a pressing need for large definitive studies to delineate the nature and extent of key case/control differences to direct research towards fruitful areas for future investigation. Here we focus on perception of biological motion, a promising index of social brain function which may be altered in ASD. In a large sample ranging from childhood to adulthood, we assess whether biological motion preference differs in ASD compared to neurotypical participants (NT), how differences are modulated by age and sex and whether they are associated with dimensional variation in concurrent or later symptomatology.Methods: Eye-tracking data were collected from 486 6-to-30-year-old autistic (N = 282) and non-autistic control (N = 204) participants whilst they viewed 28 trials pairing biological (BM) and control (non-biological, CTRL) motion. Preference for the biological motion stimulus was calculated as (1) proportion looking time difference (BM-CTRL) and (2) peak look duration difference (BM-CTRL).Results: The ASD group showed a present but weaker preference for biological motion than the NT group. The nature of the control stimulus modulated preference for biological motion in both groups. Biological motion preference did not vary with age, gender, or concurrent or prospective social communicative skill within the ASD group, although a lack of clear preference for either stimulus was associated with higher social-communicative symptoms at baseline.Limitations: The paired visual preference we used may underestimate preference for a stimulus in younger and lower IQ individuals. Our ASD group had a lower average IQ by approximately seven points. 18% of our sample was not analysed for various technical and behavioural reasons.Conclusions: Biological motion preference elicits small-to-medium-sized case–control effects, but individual differences do not strongly relate to core social autism associated symptomatology. We interpret this as an autistic difference (as opposed to a deficit) likely manifest in social brain regions. The extent to which this is an innate difference present from birth and central to the autistic phenotype, or the consequence of a life lived with ASD, is unclear.
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