Online Spectral Density Estimation
Shahriar Hasnat Kazi, Niall Adams, Edward A. K. Cohen

TL;DR
This paper introduces the first online algorithms for spectral density estimation that operate efficiently in streaming settings, adapt to changing data, and are validated through simulations and real-world ocean data.
Contribution
It presents novel online spectral density estimators using forgetting factors, including an adaptive method that tunes parameters in real-time, advancing streaming time series analysis.
Findings
Asymptotic recovery of offline spectral estimates under stationarity
Effective tracking of time-varying spectral properties in real-time
Strong empirical performance demonstrated on ocean drifter data
Abstract
This paper develops the first online algorithms for estimating the spectral density function -- a fundamental object of interest in time series analysis -- that satisfies the three core requirements of streaming inference: fixed memory, fixed computational complexity, and temporal adaptivity. Our method builds on the concept of forgetting factors, allowing the estimator to adapt to gradual or abrupt changes in the data-generating process without prior knowledge of its dynamics. We introduce a novel online forgetting-factor periodogram and show that, under stationarity, it asymptotically recovers the properties of its offline counterpart. Leveraging this, we construct an online Whittle estimator, and further develop an adaptive online spectral estimator that dynamically tunes its forgetting factor using the Whittle likelihood as a loss. Through extensive simulation studies and an…
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Taxonomy
TopicsData Stream Mining Techniques · Time Series Analysis and Forecasting · Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
