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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

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 dynamic time warping (DTW) distance has been used as a misfit function for wave-equation inversion to mitigate the local minima issue. However, the original DTW distance is not smooth; therefore it can yield a strong discontinuity in…

Geophysics · Physics 2022-03-22 Fuqiang Chen , Daniel Peter , Matteo Ravasi

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

The elasticity of the DTW metric provides a more flexible comparison between time series and is used in numerous machine learning domains such as classification or clustering. However, it does not align the measurements at the beginning and…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Lucas Foulon , Ilyes Korichi , Xavier Millot

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

Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) is a popular time series distance measure that aligns the points in two series with one another. These alignments support warping of the time dimension to allow for processes that unfold at differing rates. The…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Matthieu Herrmann , Chang Wei Tan , Geoffrey I. Webb

Temporal data are naturally everywhere, especially in the digital era that sees the advent of big data and internet of things. One major challenge that arises during temporal data analysis and mining is the comparison of time series or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Saeid Soheily-Khah , Pierre-François Marteau

Motif discovery is a fundamental step in data mining tasks for time-series data such as clustering, classification and anomaly detection. Even though many papers have addressed the problem of how to find motifs in time-series by proposing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Maria Inês Silva , Roberto Henriques

Distance-based time series anomaly detection methods are prevalent due to their relative non-parametric nature and interpretability. However, the commonly used Euclidean distance is sensitive to noise. While existing works have explored…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hanyang Yuan , Qinglin Cai , Keting Yin

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

In this work, we consider the problem of sequence-to-sequence alignment for signals containing outliers. Assuming the absence of outliers, the standard Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithm efficiently computes the optimal alignment between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Nikita Dvornik , Isma Hadji , Konstantinos G. Derpanis , Animesh Garg , Allan D. Jepson

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

The Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) distance is a popular measure of similarity for a variety of sequence data. For comparing polygonal curves $\pi, \sigma$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, it provides a robust, outlier-insensitive alternative to the…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Karl Bringmann , Sándor Kisfaludi-Bak , Marvin Künnemann , Dániel Marx , André Nusser

The goal of temporal alignment is to establish time correspondence between two sequences, which has many applications in a variety of areas such as speech processing, bioinformatics, computer vision, and computer graphics. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2012-06-20 Makoto Yamada , Leonid Sigal , Michalis Raptis , Masashi Sugiyama

Despite the rapid progress on research in adversarial robustness of deep neural networks (DNNs), there is little principled work for the time-series domain. Since time-series data arises in diverse applications including mobile health,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Taha Belkhouja , Yan Yan , Janardhan Rao Doppa

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) plays an important role in analytics on time series. Despite the large body of research on speeding up univariate DTW, the method for multivariate DTW has not been improved much in the last two decades. The most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-21 Daniel Shen , Min Chi

We propose Dynamic Meta-Metrics (DMM), a framework for machine translation evaluation that learns source-sentence conditioned combinations of existing metrics. Rather than relying on a single static ensemble or language-specific weighting,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Luke Zhang , Justin Vasselli , Aditya Khan , York Hay Ng , En-Shiun Annie Lee

Dictionary learning is an effective tool for pattern recognition and classification of time series data. Among various dictionary learning techniques, the dynamic time warping (DTW) is commonly used for dealing with temporal delays,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-07-03 Ruiyu Xu , Chao Wang , Yongxiang Li , Jianguo Wu