Coupling Gaussian Process Dynamical Models with Product-of-Experts Kernels

Dmytro Velychko, Dominik Endres, Nick Taubert, Martin A. Giese

Abstract: We describe a new probabilistic model for learning of coupled dynamical systems in latent state spaces. The coupling is achieved by combining predictions from several Gaussian process dynamical models in a product-of-experts fashion. Our approach facilitates modulation of coupling strengths without the need for computationally expensive re-learning of the dynamical models. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the new coupling model on synthetic toy examples and on high-dimensional human walking motion capture data.