theft package simplifies feature extraction for time series analysis in R.
problem Lack of a unified access point and methodological pipelines for feature-based time series analysis.
method theft package provides a unified framework for computing features from six open-source time series feature sets.
result theft enables comprehensive quantification and interpretation of time series structure.
New algorithms select and rank features from MTS without feature extraction.
problem Feature extraction step for MTS classification.
method Directly computes similarity between time series and assesses cluster structure matching labels.
result Techniques match labels well without feature extraction.
A new framework for generating predictive features in noisy multivariate time series.
problem Predicting noisy multivariate time series with limited user effort.
method Develops a feature programming framework based on spin-gas dynamical Ising models.
result Validated the method on synthetic and real-world datasets.
Feature-based time series representations have attracted substantial attention in a wide range of time series analysis methods. Recently, the use of time series features for forecast model averaging has been an emerging research focus in the forecasting community. Nonetheless, most of the existing approaches depend on …
Capturing the dynamical properties of time series concisely as interpretable feature vectors can enable efficient clustering and classification for time-series applications across science and industry. Selecting an appropriate feature-based representation of time series for a given application can be achieved through s…
Bayesian QFSTS model tackles feature selection in quantile time series analysis.
problem Quantile feature selection in correlated multivariate time series data.
method Bayesian dimension reduction methodology using QFSTS model with multivariate asymmetric Laplace distribution, spike-and-slab prior, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, and Bayesian model averaging.
result QFSTS model outperforms in feature selection, parameter estimation, and forecasting.
Multivariate time series classification is a high value and well-known problem in machine learning community. Feature extraction is a main step in classification tasks. Traditional approaches employ hand-crafted features for classification while convolutional neural networks (CNN) are able to extract features automatic…
Generative model uses random convolutional features to create financial time series.
problem Generating realistic financial time series with limited data and avoiding overfitting.
method Train generators by matching random convolutional features of real and generated time series, using SOCK (SOft Competing Kernels) feature map.
result Generators trained with random SOCK features outperform baselines across various financial datasets.
ExpCLR uses expert features to improve time-series representation learning.
problem Current representation learning approaches fail to ensure useful properties for time-series data.
method ExpCLR employs expert features to replace data transformations in contrastive learning, ensuring two useful properties for time-series representations.
result ExpCLR outperforms state-of-the-art methods on three real-world time-series datasets.
New framework uses time series features for predicting streamflow in ungauged areas.
problem Predicting streamflow in areas without gauging stations.
method Developed regression-based streamflow regionalization using a wide range of time series features from large datasets.
result Certain time series features, like entropy and autocorrelation, are better predictors of streamflow than traditional catchment attributes.
Study shows topological features improve time series classification.
problem Classifying stochastic processes with varying noise and sampling.
method Topological data analysis features compared to statistical and raw features.
result Topological features lead to better classification performance.
VEST automates feature engineering for time series forecasting.
problem Challenges in time series forecasting with improved performance.
method VEST combines auto-regression with statistical summarization of recent past dynamics.
result VEST significantly improves forecasting performance.
A new method extracts features from time series data using iterated sums and improves classification accuracy.
problem Time series classification challenges.
method Feature extraction using iterated-sums signature (ISS) followed by a linear classifier.
result Competitive with state-of-the-art methods on UCR archive.
Paper tackles class-incremental time series classification with dual-stream feature extraction.
problem Class-incremental continual learning for multivariate time series data.
method Dual-stream feature extraction pipeline combining deep temporal embedding features and statistical features.
result Competitive average accuracy across multiple datasets with low forgetting rates.
We developed a new approach for the analysis of physiological time series. An iterative convolution filter is used to decompose the time series into various components. Statistics of these components are extracted as features to characterize the mechanisms underlying the time series. Motivated by the studies that show …
ALT improves TSC by capturing complex patterns in time series data.
problem Challenges in traditional TSC methods with time series complexity and variability.
method ALT incorporates variable-length shifted time windows to enhance LLT for better feature representation.
result ALT achieves state-of-the-art performance with few hyperparameters.
Automatically learns summary features from time series data for likelihood-free inference.
problem Necessity of hand-tailored summary features for time series data in likelihood-free inference.
method Data-driven approach to automatically learn summary features.
result Learning summary features from data can outperform hand-crafted values in likelihood-free inference.
Paper shows how SFA fits into FBM framework for time series separation.
problem Identifying time series decomposition in flow-based models.
method Combining SFA and FBM to make time series decomposition identifiable.
result Time series decomposition becomes identifiable using SFA and FBM.
FIT evaluates time series model feature importance quantifying distributional shift.
problem Lack of explanations for time series models in high-stakes applications.
method FIT framework quantifies feature importance based on distributional shift using KL-divergence.
result FIT identifies important time points and observations superiorly compared to baselines.
tsflex speeds up time series processing and feature extraction.
problem Inefficient and inflexible time series processing tools.
method Flexible Python toolkit exttttsflex for multivariate, asynchronous time series. result Significantly faster and more memory-efficient than existing packages.
The paper benchmarks saliency methods for time series predictions.
problem Benchmarking saliency methods for time series predictions.
method Compared saliency-based interpretability methods across diverse neural architectures.
result Saliency methods fail to reliably identify feature importance over time in time series data.
New framework for analyzing hydroclimatic time series across multiple scales.
problem Understanding geophysical processes and evaluating stochastic models across different time scales.
method A novel feature compilation method for multi-scale hydroclimatic analyses.
result Identified similarities and differences in time series types across various temporal resolutions.
The ubiquitous availability of wearable sensors is responsible for driving the Internet-of-Things but is also making an impact on sport sciences and precision medicine. While human activity recognition from smartphone data or other types of inertial measurement units (IMU) has evolved to one of the most prominent daily…
DeepLINK-T uses deep learning and knockoffs for time series data.
problem Interpreting and reproducible deep learning models for high-dimensional time series data.
method Combines deep learning with knockoffs for FDR control in feature selection for time series models.
result DeepLINK-T effectively controls FDR while demonstrating superior feature selection for high-dimensional longitudinal time series data.
A new framework detects anomalies in multivariate time-series data.
problem Lack of explicit relationships between time-series data.
method Graph Attention Network framework that considers temporal and feature dependencies.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art models on three real-world datasets.
Paper extracts features from time series to improve forecasting accuracy.
problem Forecasting time series generated by Itô-type processes with unknown coefficients.
method Statistical adjustment of mixture-type models to extract features from time series data.
result Additional statistical features enhance time series prediction accuracy.
The explosion of time series data in recent years has brought a flourish of new time series analysis methods, for forecasting, clustering, classification and other tasks. The evaluation of these new methods requires either collecting or simulating a diverse set of time series benchmarking data to enable reliable compar…
A robust model for time series forecasting is highly important in many domains, including but not limited to financial forecast, air temperature and electricity consumption. To improve forecasting performance, traditional approaches usually require additional feature sets. However, adding more feature sets from differe…
Time series forecasting is difficult. It is difficult even for recurrent neural networks with their inherent ability to learn sequentiality. This article presents a recurrent neural network based time series forecasting framework covering feature engineering, feature importances, point and interval predictions, and for…
Method learns dynamics from sparse, irregular feature data.
problem Learn system dynamics from sparse, irregularly sampled feature time series.
method Formulates as high-dimensional linear regression using signatures.
result Oracle bound on prediction error with explicit sampling dependencies.
HHT feature generation enhances financial time series forecasting.
problem Forecasting nonstationary financial time series.
method CEEMD and HHT for decomposition, machine learning integration.
result HHT-enhanced models outperform traditional models in forecasting.
RTFN extracts robust temporal features for time series analysis.
problem Challenges in extracting sufficient shapelets from time series data.
method Combines temporal feature networks and attentional LSTM networks.
result RTFN outperforms in supervised and unsupervised time series analysis.
The authors seek financial datasets to benchmark feature engineering methods on US market data.
problem Improving predictive models for financial data science competitions.
method Feature engineering methods applied to multivariate time-series data from the US market.
result Predictive power of models tested against Numerai-Signals targets.
A new clustering method for vector time series using autoregressive dynamics.
problem Clustering of vector time series based on their dynamics is challenging.
method System identification approach using mixture autoregressive models.
result Developed a computationally manageable algorithm k-LMVAR for clustering vector time series.
Simple mean and std-based classifier outperforms chance on 69 out of 128 time-series problems.
problem Time-series classification accuracy comparison
method Linear classifier using mean and standard deviation features
result Simple distributional features outperform chance on 69 out of 128 time-series problems
Bayesian time series forecasting improves by dynamically adapting to recent information.
problem Lack of forgetting mechanism in signature kernel for time series forecasting.
method Introducing a novel forgetting mechanism for signature features using Random Fourier Decayed Signature Features (RFDSF) with Gaussian processes (GPs).
result Demonstrates superior performance compared to other GP-based alternatives and state-of-the-art probabilistic time series forecasting algorithms.
This paper advocates Riemannian multi-manifold modeling in the context of network-wide non-stationary time-series analysis. Time-series data, collected sequentially over time and across a network, yield features which are viewed as points in or close to a union of multiple submanifolds of a Riemannian manifold, and dis…
A novel distance measure aligns time series with feature and temporal variability.
problem Measuring similarity between time series with different features and dynamics.
method Learn a latent global transformation and temporal alignment in a joint optimization problem.
result Framework robustly aligns time series across various invariance classes.
Paper uses topological data analysis for time series classification.
problem Classifying univariate time series data, especially physiological signals.
method Persistent homology for feature engineering, followed by machine learning.
result Higher accuracy achieved with fewer features compared to traditional methods.
Path signatures adapted for Lie groups improve action recognition in computer vision.
problem Improving action recognition in computer vision with geometric constraints.
method Lifting path signatures to Lie groups and proving universality and characteristic property.
result Path signatures on Lie groups provide comparable performance to shallow learning approaches in action recognition.
End-to-end model for time series classification with missing data.
problem Time series classification with missing data.
method End-to-end neural network that unifies imputation and representation learning.
result Proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for incomplete time series classification.
New method identifies causes in time series with latent variables.
problem Identifying direct and indirect causes in time series data with hidden variables.
method Proves necessary and sufficient conditions for causal feature selection using graph constraints and conditional independence tests.
result Method outperforms Granger causality in identifying causes with low false positives and false negatives.
CaLoNet integrates spatial and local correlations for multivariate time series classification.
problem Ignoring spatial and local correlations in multivariate time series classification.
method Model spatial correlations using causality modeling, extract local correlations, integrate into graph neural network.
result Competitive performance compared to state-of-the-art methods on UEA datasets.
EDICT learns evidential distributions for irregular time series, improving predictions and uncertainty quantification.
problem Challenges in predicting and characterizing uncertainty for irregular time series data.
method EDICT (Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series) learns a continuous-time evidential distribution.
result EDICT achieves competitive performance on time series classification tasks and provides better uncertainty quantification.
Neural clustering learns time series affinity from statistical features.
problem Challenging time series clustering with unknown cluster shapes and structures.
method Amortized neural inference using statistical features.
result Competitive clustering accuracy without manual specification of cluster shapes.
Proposes interpretable time series classification through extracted features.
problem Interpretable time series classification in complex problems.
method Extracts features from time series to improve interpretability of traditional classifiers.
result No statistically significant differences in accuracy compared to state-of-the-art models.
Time-related features improve time series forecasting models.
problem Lack of explicit time-related encoding in current forecasting models limits their ability to capture cyclical and seasonal trends.
method Introducing Time Stamp Forecaster (TimeSter) to encode time-related features and integrating it with a linear backbone.
result TimeLinear model reduces MSE by 23% on benchmark datasets, improving performance with exceptional efficiency.
This work combines recurrent models with diffusion for probabilistic time series forecasting.
problem Scalability and capturing high-dimensional distributions and cross-feature dependencies in time series forecasting.
method Combines recurrent neural networks' efficiency with diffusion models' probabilistic modeling, using stochastic interpolants and conditional generation.
result Offers scalable probabilistic time series forecasting methods.