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Recent work on time-series models has leveraged self-supervised training to learn meaningful features and patterns in order to improve performance on downstream tasks and generalize to unseen modalities. While these pretraining methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Paul Quinlan , Qingguo Li , Xiaodan Zhu

Various contrastive learning approaches have been proposed in recent years and achieve significant empirical success. While effective and prevalent, contrastive learning has been less explored for time series data. A key component of…

Time series pre-training has recently garnered wide attention for its potential to reduce labeling expenses and benefit various downstream tasks. Prior methods are mainly based on pre-training techniques well-acknowledged in vision or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Jiaxiang Dong , Haixu Wu , Yuxuan Wang , Yunzhong Qiu , Li Zhang , Jianmin Wang , Mingsheng Long

Detection of periodic patterns of interest within noisy time series data plays a critical role in various tasks, spanning from health monitoring to behavior analysis. Existing learning techniques often rely on labels or clean versions of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Berken Utku Demirel , Christian Holz

Time series augmentation is critical for training robust deep learning models, particularly in domains where labelled data is scarce and expensive to obtain. However, existing augmentation libraries for time series, mainly written in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wadie Skaf , Felix Kern , Aryamaan Basu Roy , Tejas Pradhan , Roman Kalkreuth , Holger Hoos

Irregularly-sampled time series occur in many domains including healthcare. They can be challenging to model because they do not naturally yield a fixed-dimensional representation as required by many standard machine learning models. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Steven Cheng-Xian Li , Benjamin M. Marlin

Irregular Multivariate Time Series (IMTS) are characterized by uneven intervals between consecutive timestamps, which carry sampling pattern information valuable and informative for learning temporal and variable dependencies. In addition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Boyuan Li , Zhen Liu , Yicheng Luo , Qianli Ma

Time series classification (TSC) is an important task in time series analysis. Existing TSC methods mainly train on each single domain separately, suffering from a degradation in accuracy when the samples for training are insufficient in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Yuxuan Chen , Shanshan Huang , Yunyao Cheng , Peng Chen , Zhongwen Rao , Yang Shu , Bin Yang , Lujia Pan , Chenjuan Guo

Time series observations can be seen as realizations of an underlying dynamical system governed by rules that we typically do not know. For time series learning tasks, we need to understand that we fit our model on available data, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Amine Mohamed Aboussalah , Min-Jae Kwon , Raj G Patel , Cheng Chi , Chi-Guhn Lee

Timeseries regression models often struggle to leverage large volumes of labeled multimodal data, particularly when the data are irregularly sampled or contain missing values. This is common in domains like healthcare and predictive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Antoine Honoré , Ming Xiao

Benchmarking anomaly detection approaches for multivariate time series is a challenging task due to a lack of high-quality datasets. Current publicly available datasets are too small, not diverse and feature trivial anomalies, which hinders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Lucas Correia , Jan-Christoph Goos , Thomas Bäck , Anna V. Kononova

Although the pre-training followed by fine-tuning paradigm is used extensively in many fields, there is still some controversy surrounding the impact of pre-training on the fine-tuning process. Currently, experimental findings based on text…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Jiashu Pu , Shiwei Zhao , Ling Cheng , Yongzhu Chang , Runze Wu , Tangjie Lv , Rongsheng Zhang

Large pre-trained models have been vital in recent advancements in domains like language and vision, making model training for individual downstream tasks more efficient and provide superior performance. However, tackling time-series…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Harshavardhan Kamarthi , B. Aditya Prakash

With the latest advances in Deep Learning-based generative models, it has not taken long to take advantage of their remarkable performance in the area of time series. Deep neural networks used to work with time series heavily depend on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Guillermo Iglesias , Edgar Talavera , Ángel González-Prieto , Alberto Mozo , Sandra Gómez-Canaval

While Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors create continuous streams of information, Big Data infrastructures are deemed to handle the influx of data in real-time. One type of such a continuous stream of information is time series…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-05-05 Elyas Sabeti , Peter X. K. Song , Alfred O. Hero

Benefiting from prompt tuning, recent years have witnessed the promising performance of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g., CLIP, on versatile downstream tasks. In this paper, we focus on a particular setting of learning adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Chun-Mei Feng , Kai Yu , Yong Liu , Salman Khan , Wangmeng Zuo

Irregularly-sampled time series (ITS) are native to high-impact domains like healthcare, where measurements are collected over time at uneven intervals. However, for many classification problems, only small portions of long time series are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Thomas Hartvigsen , Jidapa Thadajarassiri , Xiangnan Kong , Elke Rundensteiner

A wide range of NLP tasks benefit from the fine-tuning of pretrained language models (PLMs). However, a number of redundant parameters which contribute less to the downstream task are observed in a directly fine-tuned model. We consider the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Yupeng Zhang , Hongzhi Zhang , Sirui Wang , Wei Wu , Zhoujun Li

Missing data in time series is a pervasive problem that puts obstacles in the way of advanced analysis. A popular solution is imputation, where the fundamental challenge is to determine what values should be filled in. This paper proposes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Wenjie Du , David Cote , Yan Liu

Irregular multivariate time series (IMTS) are characterized by irregular time intervals within variables and unaligned observations across variables, posing challenges in learning temporal and variable dependencies. Many existing IMTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Boyuan Li , Yicheng Luo , Zhen Liu , Junhao Zheng , Jianming Lv , Qianli Ma