期刊
COMPUTERS & GEOSCIENCES
卷 156, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2021.104902
关键词
Bayesian methods; Computationally intensive methods; Low-frequency tremors; Shikoku region; Shikoku region; Tremor forecast
资金
- NZ Marsden Fund
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are versatile models widely used in various scientific fields, requiring significant computational resources. A new GPU-based algorithm is introduced in this study to fit long-chain HMMs, resulting in improved computational performance and forecast accuracy on a dataset from Japan.
Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are general purpose models for time-series data widely used across the sciences because of their flexibility and elegance. Fitting HMMs can often be computationally demanding and time consuming, particularly when the number of hidden states is large or the Markov chain itself is long. Here we introduce a new Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)-based algorithm designed to fit long-chain HMMs, applying our approach to a model for low-frequency tremor events. Even on a modest GPU, our implementation resulted in an increase in speed of several orders of magnitude compared to the standard single processor algorithm. This permitted a full Bayesian inference of uncertainty related to model parameters and forecasts based on posterior predictive distributions. Similar improvements would be expected for HMM models given large number of observations and moderate state spaces (< 80 states with current hardware). We discuss the model, general GPU architecture and algorithms and report performance of the method on a tremor dataset from the Shikoku region, Japan. The new approach led to improvements in both computational performance and forecast accuracy, compared to existing frequentist methodology.
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