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48 results for event sequences

Proposes OC4Seq for detecting anomalies in discrete event sequences.

problem Challenges in detecting anomalies in discrete event sequences, including data imbalance, discrete events, and sequential nature.
method Integrates anomaly detection with recurrent neural networks (RNNs) to embed sequences into latent spaces and designs a multi-scale RNN framework to capture multi-scale sequential patterns.
result OC4Seq consistently outperforms various baselines on three benchmark datasets.

Events in the world may be caused by other, unobserved events. We consider sequences of events in continuous time. Given a probability model of complete sequences, we propose particle smoothing---a form of sequential importance sampling---to impute the missing events in an incomplete sequence. We develop a trainable fa…

2019-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Continuous-time event sequences represent discrete events occurring in continuous time. Such sequences arise frequently in real-life. Usually we expect the sequences to follow some regular pattern over time. However, sometimes these patterns may be interrupted by unexpected absence or occurrences of events. Identificat…

2019-12-19abs ↗pdf ↗

Many real-world applications require robust algorithms to learn point processes based on a type of incomplete data --- the so-called short doubly-censored (SDC) event sequences. We study this critical problem of quantitative asynchronous event sequence analysis under the framework of Hawkes processes by leveraging the …

2017-02-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Survey on modeling event sequences through temporal processes.

problem Modeling phenomena with sequences of events over continuous time.
method Probabilistic models based on point processes, categorized into simple, marked, and spatio-temporal.
result Analysis of existing approaches and their applicability to prediction and modeling.

Framework handles both exchangeable and non-exchangeable event sequences without tuning.

problem Handling both exchangeable and non-exchangeable event sequences efficiently.
method Parametric Hawkes-process-inspired conditional probability mass function with variational inference.
result Competitive computational and predictive performance against state-of-the-art methods.

We suggest a novel method of clustering and exploratory analysis of temporal event sequences data (also known as categorical time series) based on three-dimensional data grid models. A data set of temporal event sequences can be represented as a data set of three-dimensional points, each point is defined by three varia…

2015-05-06abs ↗pdf ↗

Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes (LBDTPP) is a semi-autoregressive framework for generating asynchronous event sequences.

problem Generating asynchronous event sequences
method Latent Block-Diffusion Temporal Point Processes
result Outperforms state-of-the-art TPP baselines in both unconditional and conditional generation tasks

Sequential modelling with self-attention has achieved cutting edge performances in natural language processing. With advantages in model flexibility, computation complexity and interpretability, self-attention is gradually becoming a key component in event sequence models. However, like most other sequence models, self…

2019-11-28abs ↗pdf ↗

TOQ-Nets learn to recognize complex temporal events with varying objects and sequences.

problem Recognizing complex relational-temporal events with varying numbers of objects and sequence lengths.
method Neuro-symbolic networks with reasoning layers for finite-domain quantification over objects and time.
result TOQ-Nets can generalize to scenarios with more objects than training data and temporal warpings.

This paper explores neural models to improve modeling of Hawkes process intensity functions.

problem Traditional Hawkes process intensity function's parametrized kernel function biases future event predictions.
method Uses neural models to model the kernel function of Hawkes process intensity function.
result Neural models can better capture future event characteristics using past events data.

Proposes a model for multi-horizon probabilistic forecasting of time series influenced by asynchronous events.

problem Forecasting time series influenced by asynchronous events is challenging.
method Introduces Variational Synergetic Multi-Horizon Network (VSMHN), a deep conditional generative model combining deep point processes and variational recurrent neural networks.
result Produces accurate, sharp, and realistic probabilistic forecasts.

New framework infers causal shifts in event sequences under out-of-domain interventions.

problem Inferring causal relationships in event sequences without considering out-of-domain interventions.
method Proposes a new causal framework to define ATE, designs an unbiased ATE estimator, and uses a Transformer-based neural network model.
result Demonstrates superior performance in ATE estimation and goodness-of-fit under out-of-domain-augmented point processes.

Sequential pattern mining is an interesting research area with broad range of applications. Most prior research on sequential pattern mining has considered point-based data where events occur instantaneously. However, in many application domains, events persist over intervals of time of varying lengths. Furthermore, tr…

2019-12-24abs ↗pdf ↗

Modeling multiple Hawkes processes with shared dynamics using graphons.

problem Modeling multiple multivariate point processes with shared dynamics.
method Leverage graphons to model an uncountable event type space, learn graphon-based Hawkes process model by minimizing hierarchical optimal transport distance.
result Infer underlying relations and simulate event sequences with similar dynamics.

SMURF-THP improves Transformer Hawkes process models by providing uncertainty quantification.

problem Uncertainty quantification for Transformer Hawkes process predictions.
method Score matching for learning the score function of event arrival times.
result SMURF-THP outperforms likelihood-based methods in confidence calibration.

Generative model for TPPs using signatures and distributional discrepancies.

problem Limitations of signature methods for TPPs and lack of global sequence-level loss in neural models.
method Introduce interarrival embedding to lift jump paths to continuous paths of bounded variation, enabling signature methods for discrete event sequences. Develop sigTPP, a signature-based generative model trained on path-level loss.
result sigTPP achieves the best average rank across multiple metrics and outperforms or is within a standard error of the strongest baseline in 64% of dataset-metric pairs.

Various and ubiquitous information systems are being used in monitoring, exchanging, and collecting information. These systems are generating massive amount of event sequence logs that may help us understand underlying phenomenon. By analyzing these logs, we can learn process models that describe system procedures, pre…

2018-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

This paper proposes a new meta-learning method -- named HARMLESS (HAwkes Relational Meta LEarning method for Short Sequences) for learning heterogeneous point process models from short event sequence data along with a relational network. Specifically, we propose a hierarchical Bayesian mixture Hawkes process model, whi…

2019-09-04abs ↗pdf ↗

New method detects TC imagery patterns for rapid intensity change.

problem Detecting upcoming rapid intensity changes in TC satellite imagery.
method Nonparametric test of association between images and event labels using neural networks and bootstrap.
result Identifies archetypes of infrared imagery associated with elevated rapid intensification risk.

A new HP model balances interpretability and flexibility for EHR event sequences.

problem Balancing interpretability and flexibility in modeling diagnostic event sequences.
method Proposes a neural network-based HP with flexible impact kernel and transformer layers.
result Accurately recovers impact functions, competitive performance, and clinically meaningful interpretation.

Develops a framework for modeling set-valued data in continuous-time.

problem Handling sequences where each event is associated with a set of items.
method General framework for modeling set-valued data, developed inference methods, and importance sampling techniques.
result Orders-of-magnitude improvements in efficiency for probabilistic queries over direct sampling.

We consider the sequential anomaly detection problem in the one-class setting when only the anomalous sequences are available and propose an adversarial sequential detector by solving a minimax problem to find an optimal detector against the worst-case sequences from a generator. The generator captures the dependence i…

2019-10-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Study examines Bitcoin's price history and identifies recurring events.

problem Understanding Bitcoin's price fluctuations and recurring events.
method Analyzed BTC price time-series (2010-2021), identified recurring events, and approximated price evolution using a Fibonacci sequence.
result BTC price history shows recurring events with similar duration and can be approximated using a Fibonacci sequence.

FraudTransformer detects payment fraud by preserving event order and time gaps.

problem Detecting payment fraud in real-world banking streams with irregular time gaps.
method Augments a GPT-style architecture with a dedicated time encoder and a learned positional encoder.
result FraudTransformer outperforms classical and transformer baselines, achieving highest AUROC and PRAUC on held-out test set.

Event sequences can be modeled by temporal point processes (TPPs) to capture their asynchronous and probabilistic nature. We propose an intensity-free framework that directly models the point process distribution by utilizing normalizing flows. This approach is capable of capturing highly complex temporal distributions…

2019-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗