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Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a useful method for aligning, comparing and combining time series, but it requires them to live in comparable spaces. In this work, we consider a setting in which time series live on different spaces without a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-24 Samuel Cohen , Giulia Luise , Alexander Terenin , Brandon Amos , Marc Peter Deisenroth

Chatter detection from sensor signals has been an active field of research. While some success has been reported using several featurization tools and machine learning algorithms, existing methods have several drawbacks such as manual…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-06 Melih C. Yesilli , Firas A. Khasawneh , Andreas Otto

We present an approach for computationally efficient dynamic time warping (DTW) and clustering of time-series data. The method frames the dynamic warping of time series datasets as an optimisation problem solved using dynamic programming,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-10 Volkan Kumtepeli , Rebecca Perriment , David A. Howey

Dynamic time warping distance (DTW) is a widely used distance measure between time series. The best known algorithms for computing DTW run in near quadratic time, and conditional lower bounds prohibit the existence of significantly faster…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-27 William Kuszmaul

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

Elastic distances like dynamic time warping (DTW) are central to time series machine learning because they compare sequences under local temporal misalignment. Soft-DTW is an adaptation of DTW that can be used as a gradient-based loss by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Christopher Holder , Anthony Bagnall

We investigate metric learning in the context of dynamic time warping (DTW), the by far most popular dissimilarity measure used for the comparison and analysis of motion capture data. While metric learning enables a problem-adapted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Babak Hosseini , Barbara Hammer

We propose in this paper a differentiable learning loss between time series, building upon the celebrated dynamic time warping (DTW) discrepancy. Unlike the Euclidean distance, DTW can compare time series of variable size and is robust to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-02-21 Marco Cuturi , Mathieu Blondel

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 a robust similarity measure of time series. However, it does not satisfy triangular inequality and has high computational complexity, severely limiting its applications in similarity search on large-scale…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-12 Zhengxin Li

This paper investigates the application of Time Series K-means (TS-K-means) within the context of causal inference and mechanism clustering of financial time series data. Traditional clustering approaches like K-means often rely on static…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-06-12 Minheng Xiao

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a widely used similarity measure for comparing strings that encode time series data, with applications to areas including bioinformatics, signature verification, and speech recognition. The standard…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Zoe Xi , William Kuszmaul

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular similarity measure between time series. The DTW fails to satisfy the triangle inequality and its computation requires quadratic time. Hence, to find closest neighbors quickly, we use bounding…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-16 Daniel Lemire

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

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

Dynamic time warping (DTW) is a well-known algorithm for time series elastic dissimilarity measure. Its ability to deal with non-linear time distortions makes it helpful in variety of data mining tasks. Such a task is also anomaly detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Matej Kloska , Gabriela Grmanova , Viera Rozinajova

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

Computing an accurate mean of a set of time series is a critical task in applications like nearest-neighbor classification and clustering of time series. While there are many distance functions for time series, the most popular distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-29 Jana Holznigenkemper , Christian Komusiewicz , Bernhard Seeger

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a well-known similarity measure for time series. The standard dynamic programming approach to compute the DTW distance of two length-$n$ time series, however, requires~$O(n^2)$ time, which is often too slow for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Vincent Froese , Brijnesh Jain , Maciej Rymar , Mathias Weller

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