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Generative modeling of time series is a central challenge in time series analysis, particularly under data-scarce conditions. Despite recent advances in generative modeling, a comprehensive understanding of how state-of-the-art generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Tal Gonen , Itai Pemper , Ilan Naiman , Nimrod Berman , Omri Azencot

Text-to-Time Series generation holds significant potential to address challenges such as data sparsity, imbalance, and limited availability of multimodal time series datasets across domains. While diffusion models have achieved remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Yunfeng Ge , Jiawei Li , Yiji Zhao , Haomin Wen , Zhao Li , Meikang Qiu , Hongyan Li , Ming Jin , Shirui Pan

This paper presents a technique for reduced-order Markov modeling for compact representation of time-series data. In this work, symbolic dynamics-based tools have been used to infer an approximate generative Markov model. The time-series…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-28 Devesh K Jha , Nurali Virani , Jan Reimann , Abhishek Srivastav , Asok Ray

We study time-series classification (TSC), a fundamental task of time-series data mining. Prior work has approached TSC from two major directions: (1) similarity-based methods that classify time-series based on the nearest neighbors, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-07 Daochen Zha , Kwei-Herng Lai , Kaixiong Zhou , Xia Hu

This work studies the problem of time series analysis with generalist (or foundation) models, which are models trained across many data domains. Drawing inspiration from the widespread success of large language models, we consider the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Sabera Talukder , Yisong Yue , Georgia Gkioxari

Time series analysis and modelling constitute a crucial research area. Traditional artificial neural networks struggle with complex, non-stationary time series data due to high computational complexity, limited ability to capture temporal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chengzhi Liu , Zheng Tao , Zihong Luo , Chenghao Liu

Time series mining is an important branch of data mining, as time series data is ubiquitous and has many applications in several domains. The main task in time series mining is classification. Time series representation methods play an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad

The financial industry is increasingly seeking robust methods to address the challenges posed by data scarcity and low signal-to-noise ratios, which limit the application of deep learning techniques in stock market analysis. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Guangming Che

Large language models have achieved remarkable success in time series prediction tasks, but their substantial computational and memory requirements limit deployment on lightweight platforms. In this paper, we propose the Symbolic Transition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Namkyung Yoon , Hwangnam Kim

Many security and network applications require having large datasets to train the machine learning models. Limited data access is a well-known problem in the security domain. Recent studies have shown the potential of Transformer models to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Yusuf Elnady

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are revolutionizing the forecasting landscape from specific dataset modeling to generalizable task evaluation. However, we contend that existing benchmarks exhibit common limitations in four dimensions:…

The versatility of self-attention mechanism earned transformers great success in almost all data modalities, with limitations on the quadratic complexity and difficulty of training. Efficient transformers, on the other hand, often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Minh Lenhat , Viet Anh Nguyen , Khoa Nguyen , Duong Duc Hieu , Dao Huu Hung , Truong Son Hy

As time-series applications grow larger, there is increasing demand for symbolic representations that are compact, accurate, and scalable across many signals and computing resources. Current ABBA-based symbolic approximation methods produce…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xinye Chen

Time series data are foundational in finance, healthcare, and energy domains. However, most existing methods and datasets remain focused on a narrow spectrum of tasks, such as forecasting or anomaly detection. To bridge this gap, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Yaxuan Kong , Yiyuan Yang , Yoontae Hwang , Wenjie Du , Stefan Zohren , Zhangyang Wang , Ming Jin , Qingsong Wen

Machine learning methods trained on raw numerical time series data exhibit fundamental limitations such as a high sensitivity to the hyper parameters and even to the initialization of random weights. A combination of a recurrent neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Steven Elsworth , Stefan Güttel

Time series forecasting is a subject of significant scientific and industrial importance. Despite the widespread utilization of forecasting methods, there is a dearth of research aimed at comprehending the conditions under which these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Moisés Santos , André de Carvalho , Carlos Soares

Signal quality assessment (SQA) is required for monitoring the reliability of data acquisition systems, especially in AI-driven Predictive Maintenance (PMx) application contexts. SQA is vital for addressing "silent failures" of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Chufan Gao , Nicholas Gisolfi , Artur Dubrawski

Astronomical time-series analysis faces a critical limitation: the scarcity of labeled observational data. We present a pre-training approach that leverages simulations, significantly reducing the need for labeled examples from real…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-16 Rithwik Gupta , Daniel Muthukrishna , Jeroen Audenaert

Time series (TS) data have consistently been in short supply, yet their demand remains high for training systems in prediction, modeling, classification, and various other applications. Synthesis can serve to expand the sample population,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-23 Tracey K. M. Lee , H. W. Chan , K. H. Leo , Effie Chew , L. Zhao , Saeid Sanei

Despite recent progress in time-series foundation models, challenges persist in improving representation learning and adapting to diverse downstream tasks. We introduce a General Time-series Model (GTM), which advances representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Cheng He , Xu Huang , Gangwei Jiang , Zhaoyi Li , Defu Lian , Hong Xie , Enhong Chen , Xijie Liang , Zengrong Zheng , Patrick P. C. Lee