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QUANT: A Minimalist Interval Method for Time Series Classification

Machine Learning 2023-08-03 v1

Abstract

We show that it is possible to achieve the same accuracy, on average, as the most accurate existing interval methods for time series classification on a standard set of benchmark datasets using a single type of feature (quantiles), fixed intervals, and an 'off the shelf' classifier. This distillation of interval-based approaches represents a fast and accurate method for time series classification, achieving state-of-the-art accuracy on the expanded set of 142 datasets in the UCR archive with a total compute time (training and inference) of less than 15 minutes using a single CPU core.

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@article{arxiv.2308.00928,
  title  = {QUANT: A Minimalist Interval Method for Time Series Classification},
  author = {Angus Dempster and Daniel F. Schmidt and Geoffrey I. Webb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.00928},
  year   = {2023}
}

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26 pages, 20 figures

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