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Computing the discrepancy between time series of variable sizes is notoriously challenging. While dynamic time warping (DTW) is popularly used for this purpose, it is not differentiable everywhere and is known to lead to bad local optima…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Mathieu Blondel , Arthur Mensch , Jean-Philippe Vert

1-Nearest Neighbor with the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is one of the most effective classifiers on time series domain. Since the global constraint has been introduced in speech community, many global constraint models have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-03-03 Vit Niennattrakul , Chotirat Ann Ratanamahatana

The Dynamic Time Warping ("DTW") distance is widely used in time series analysis, be it for classification, clustering or similarity search. However, its quadratic time complexity prevents it from scaling. Strategies, based on early…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Matthieu Herrmann , Geoffrey I. Webb

Elastic similarity measures are fundamental to time series similarity search because of their ability to handle temporal misalignments. These measures are inherently computationally expensive, therefore necessitating the use of lower bounds…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zemin Chao , Boyu Xiao , Zitong Li , Zhixin Qi , Xianglong Liu , Hongzhi Wang

We present a new space-efficient approach, (SparseDTW), to compute the Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance between two time series that always yields the optimal result. This is in contrast to other known approaches which typically…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-17 Ghazi Al-Naymat , Sanjay Chawla , Javid Taheri

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is an algorithm to align temporal sequences with possible local non-linear distortions, and has been widely applied to audio, video and graphics data alignments. DTW is essentially a point-to-point matching method…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-07 Jiaping Zhao , Laurent Itti

DTW calculates the similarity or alignment between two signals, subject to temporal warping. However, its computational complexity grows exponentially with the number of time-series. Although there have been algorithms developed that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-25 Soheil Khorram , Melvin G McInnis , Emily Mower Provost

The literature postulates that the dynamic time warping (dtw) distance can cope with temporal variations but stores and processes time series in a form as if the dtw-distance cannot cope with such variations. To address this inconsistency,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Brijnesh Jain

This paper introduces $k$-Dynamic Time Warping ($k$-DTW), a novel dissimilarity measure for polygonal curves. $k$-DTW has stronger metric properties than Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and is more robust to outliers than the Fr\'{e}chet…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Amer Krivošija , Alexander Munteanu , André Nusser , Chris Schwiegelshohn

We study variants of the mean problem under the $p$-Dynamic Time Warping ($p$-DTW) distance, a popular and robust distance measure for sequential data. In our setting we are given a set of finite point sequences over an arbitrary metric…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Maike Buchin , Anne Driemel , Koen van Greevenbroek , Ioannis Psarros , Dennis Rohde

The ubiquity of sequences in many domains enhances significant recent interest in sequence learning, for which a basic problem is how to measure the distance between sequences. Dynamic time warping (DTW) aligns two sequences by nonlinear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-06 Zhichen Gong , Huanhuan Chen

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) has become the pragmatic choice for measuring distance between time series. However, it suffers from unavoidable quadratic time complexity when the optimal alignment matrix needs to be computed exactly. This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Fabian Latorre , Chenghao Liu , Doyen Sahoo , Steven C. H. Hoi

Over the last decade, time series motif discovery has emerged as a useful primitive for many downstream analytical tasks, including clustering, classification, rule discovery, segmentation, and summarization. In parallel, there has been an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-18 Sara Alaee , Kaveh Kamgar , Eamonn Keogh

A time series consists of a series of values or events obtained over repeated measurements in time. Analysis of time series represents and important tool in many application areas, such as stock market analysis, process and quality control,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Vladimir Kurbalija , Miloš Radovanović , Zoltan Geler , Mirjana Ivanović

In this paper, for the purpose of data centre energy consumption monitoring and analysis, we propose to detect the running programs in a server by classifying the observed power consumption series. Time series classification problem has…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yuanlong Li , Han Hu , Yonggang Wen , Jun Zhang

Neural networks have achieved remarkable success in time series classification, but their reliance on large amounts of labeled data for training limits their applicability in cold-start scenarios. Moreover, they lack interpretability,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Jintao Qu , Zichong Wang , Chenhao Wu , Wenbin Zhang

The nearest neighbor method together with the dynamic time warping (DTW) distance is one of the most popular approaches in time series classification. This method suffers from high storage and computation requirements for large training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-27 Brijnesh Jain , David Schultz

Pointwise matches between two time series are of great importance in time series analysis, and dynamic time warping (DTW) is known to provide generally reasonable matches. There are situations where time series alignment should be invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-05-26 Tsu-Wei Chen , Meena Abdelmaseeh , Daniel Stashuk

The dynamic time warping (dtw) distance is an established tool for mining time series data. The DTW-Mean problem consists of computing a series which minimizes the so-called Fr\'echet function, that is, the sum of squared dtw-distances to a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-12-06 Vincent Froese , Christoph Hansknecht

To effectively search for the optimal motion template in dynamic multidimensional space, this paper proposes a novel optimization algorithm, Dynamic Dimension Wrapping (DDW).The algorithm combines Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) and Euclidean…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Dongnan Jin , Yali Liu , Qiuzhi Song , Xunju Ma , Yue Liu , Dehao Wu