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The ability to recognize and predict temporal sequences of sensory inputs is vital for survival in natural environments. Based on many known properties of cortical neurons, hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) sequence memory is recently…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Yuwei Cui , Subutai Ahmad , Jeff Hawkins

Temporal point processes (TPPs) are stochastic process models used to characterize event sequences occurring in continuous time. Traditional statistical TPPs have a long-standing history, with numerous models proposed and successfully…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-30 Feng Zhou , Quyu Kong , Jie Qiao , Cheng Wan , Yixuan Zhang , Ruichu Cai

A Content-based Time Series Retrieval (CTSR) system is an information retrieval system for users to interact with time series emerged from multiple domains, such as finance, healthcare, and manufacturing. For example, users seeking to learn…

Term frequency is a common method for identifying the importance of a term in a query or document. But it is a weak signal, especially when the frequency distribution is flat, such as in long queries or short documents where the text is of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-11-28 Zhuyun Dai , Jamie Callan

Multivariate Hawkes process provides a powerful framework for modeling temporal dependencies and event-driven interactions in complex systems. While existing methods primarily focus on uncovering causal structures among observed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Songyao Jin , Biwei Huang

We address the problem of retrieving relevant experiments given a query experiment, motivated by the public databases of datasets in molecular biology and other experimental sciences, and the need of scientists to relate to earlier work on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-03-10 Ritabrata Dutta , Sohan Seth , Samuel Kaski

Automatic extraction of temporal relations between event pairs is an important task for several natural language processing applications such as Question Answering, Information Extraction, and Summarization. Since most existing methods are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-01-27 Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel , Gholamreza Ghassem-Sani

Dynamic retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) allows large language models (LLMs) to fetch external knowledge on demand, offering greater adaptability than static RAG. A central challenge in this setting lies in determining the optimal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Bo Li , Tian Tian , Zhenghua Xu , Hao Cheng , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

This paper proposes a new meta-learning method -- named HARMLESS (HAwkes Relational Meta LEarning method for Short Sequences) for learning heterogeneous point process models from short event sequence data along with a relational network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Yujia Xie , Haoming Jiang , Feng Liu , Tuo Zhao , Hongyuan Zha

Temporal point processes (TPPs) are crucial for analyzing events over time and are widely used in fields such as finance, healthcare, and social systems. These processes are particularly valuable for understanding how events unfold over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Lili Chen , Wensheng Gan , Shuang Liang , Philip S. Yu

Deep Learning is becoming increasingly relevant in Embedded and Internet-of-things applications. However, deploying models on embedded devices poses a challenge due to their resource limitations. This can impact the model's inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Max Sponner , Lorenzo Servadei , Bernd Waschneck , Robert Wille , Akash Kumar

The modeling of users' behaviors is crucial in modern recommendation systems. A lot of research focuses on modeling users' lifelong sequences, which can be extremely long and sometimes exceed thousands of items. These models use the target…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Kaiming Shen , Xichen Ding , Zixiang Zheng , Yuqi Gong , Qianqian Li , Zhongyi Liu , Guannan Zhang

Time series data appears in a variety of applications such as smart transportation and environmental monitoring. One of the fundamental problems for time series analysis is time series forecasting. Despite the success of recent deep time…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Baoyu Jing , Si Zhang , Yada Zhu , Bin Peng , Kaiyu Guan , Andrew Margenot , Hanghang Tong

Sequence labelling is the task of assigning categorical labels to a data sequence. In Natural Language Processing, sequence labelling can be applied to various fundamental problems, such as Part of Speech (POS) tagging, Named Entity…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Mahtab Ahmed , Muhammad Rifayat Samee , Robert E. Mercer

Temporal point process is an expressive tool for modeling event sequences over time. In this paper, we take a reinforcement learning view whereby the observed sequences are assumed to be generated from a mixture of latent policies. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Weichang Wu , Junchi Yan , Xiaokang Yang , Hongyuan Zha

Understanding sequential information is a fundamental task for artificial intelligence. Current neural networks attempt to learn spatial and temporal information as a whole, limited their abilities to represent large scale spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Bo Pang , Kaiwen Zha , Hanwen Cao , Jiajun Tang , Minghui Yu , Cewu Lu

We propose novel neural temporal models for predicting and synthesizing human motion, achieving state-of-the-art in modeling long-term motion trajectories while being competitive with prior work in short-term prediction and requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-25 Anand Gopalakrishnan , Ankur Mali , Dan Kifer , C. Lee Giles , Alexander G. Ororbia

To retrieve more relevant, appropriate and useful documents given a query, finding clues about that query through the text is crucial. Recent deep learning models regard the task as a term-level matching problem, which seeks exact or…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-02-01 Yufeng Zhang , Jinghao Zhang , Zeyu Cui , Shu Wu , Liang Wang

Sufficiently modeling the correlations among variables (aka channels) is crucial for achieving accurate multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF). In this paper, we propose a novel technique called Temporal Query (TQ) to more effectively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Shengsheng Lin , Haojun Chen , Haijie Wu , Chunyun Qiu , Weiwei Lin

Labeled data is a critical resource for training and evaluating machine learning models. However, many real-life datasets are only partially labeled. We propose a semi-supervised machine learning training strategy to improve event detection…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Florian Dubost , Erin Hong , Nandita Bhaskhar , Siyi Tang , Daniel Rubin , Christopher Lee-Messer