Ts2vec: Towards universal representation of time series

Z Yue, Y Wang, J Duan, T Yang, C Huang… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - ojs.aaai.org
Z Yue, Y Wang, J Duan, T Yang, C Huang, Y Tong, B Xu
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2022ojs.aaai.org
This paper presents TS2Vec, a universal framework for learning representations of time
series in an arbitrary semantic level. Unlike existing methods, TS2Vec performs contrastive
learning in a hierarchical way over augmented context views, which enables a robust
contextual representation for each timestamp. Furthermore, to obtain the representation of
an arbitrary sub-sequence in the time series, we can apply a simple aggregation over the
representations of corresponding timestamps. We conduct extensive experiments on time …
Abstract
This paper presents TS2Vec, a universal framework for learning representations of time series in an arbitrary semantic level. Unlike existing methods, TS2Vec performs contrastive learning in a hierarchical way over augmented context views, which enables a robust contextual representation for each timestamp. Furthermore, to obtain the representation of an arbitrary sub-sequence in the time series, we can apply a simple aggregation over the representations of corresponding timestamps. We conduct extensive experiments on time series classification tasks to evaluate the quality of time series representations. As a result, TS2Vec achieves significant improvement over existing SOTAs of unsupervised time series representation on 125 UCR datasets and 29 UEA datasets. The learned timestamp-level representations also achieve superior results in time series forecasting and anomaly detection tasks. A linear regression trained on top of the learned representations outperforms previous SOTAs of time series forecasting. Furthermore, we present a simple way to apply the learned representations for unsupervised anomaly detection, which establishes SOTA results in the literature. The source code is publicly available at https://github. com/yuezhihan/ts2vec.
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