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Learning Vine Copula Models For Synthetic Data Generation

Authors :
Sun, Yi
Cuesta-Infante, Alfredo
Veeramachaneni, Kalyan
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

A vine copula model is a flexible high-dimensional dependence model which uses only bivariate building blocks. However, the number of possible configurations of a vine copula grows exponentially as the number of variables increases, making model selection a major challenge in development. In this work, we formulate a vine structure learning problem with both vector and reinforcement learning representation. We use neural network to find the embeddings for the best possible vine model and generate a structure. Throughout experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets, we show that our proposed approach fits the data better in terms of log-likelihood. Moreover, we demonstrate that the model is able to generate high-quality samples in a variety of applications, making it a good candidate for synthetic data generation.

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1812.01226
Document Type :
Working Paper