Abstract
AutoRegressive Modular (ARM) processes are a new class of nonlinear
stochastic processes, which can accurately model a large class of stochastic
processes, by capturing the empirical distribution and autocorrelation function simultaneously. Given an empirical sample path, the ARM modeling
procedure consists of two steps: a global search for locating the minima of
a nonlinear objective function over a large parametric space, and a local
optimization of optimal or near optimal models found in the first step. In
particular, since the first task calls for the evaluation of the objective function at each vector of the search space, the global search is a time consuming procedure. To speed up the computations, parallelization of the global
search can be effectively used by partitioning the search space among
multiple processors, since the requisite communication overhead is negligible.
This paper describes two space-partitioning methods, called Interleaving and Segmentation, respectively. The speedups resulting from these
methods are compared for their performance in modeling real-life data.