MG-TSD: Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion Models with Guided Learning Process

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Auteurs principaux: Fan, Xinyao, Wu, Yueying, Xu, Chang, Huang, Yuhao, Liu, Weiqing, Bian, Jiang
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author Fan, Xinyao
Wu, Yueying
Xu, Chang
Huang, Yuhao
Liu, Weiqing
Bian, Jiang
author_facet Fan, Xinyao
Wu, Yueying
Xu, Chang
Huang, Yuhao
Liu, Weiqing
Bian, Jiang
contents Recently, diffusion probabilistic models have attracted attention in generative time series forecasting due to their remarkable capacity to generate high-fidelity samples. However, the effective utilization of their strong modeling ability in the probabilistic time series forecasting task remains an open question, partially due to the challenge of instability arising from their stochastic nature. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion (MG-TSD) model, which achieves state-of-the-art predictive performance by leveraging the inherent granularity levels within the data as given targets at intermediate diffusion steps to guide the learning process of diffusion models. The way to construct the targets is motivated by the observation that the forward process of the diffusion model, which sequentially corrupts the data distribution to a standard normal distribution, intuitively aligns with the process of smoothing fine-grained data into a coarse-grained representation, both of which result in a gradual loss of fine distribution features. In the study, we derive a novel multi-granularity guidance diffusion loss function and propose a concise implementation method to effectively utilize coarse-grained data across various granularity levels. More importantly, our approach does not rely on additional external data, making it versatile and applicable across various domains. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world datasets demonstrate that our MG-TSD model outperforms existing time series prediction methods.
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spellingShingle MG-TSD: Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion Models with Guided Learning Process
Fan, Xinyao
Wu, Yueying
Xu, Chang
Huang, Yuhao
Liu, Weiqing
Bian, Jiang
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Recently, diffusion probabilistic models have attracted attention in generative time series forecasting due to their remarkable capacity to generate high-fidelity samples. However, the effective utilization of their strong modeling ability in the probabilistic time series forecasting task remains an open question, partially due to the challenge of instability arising from their stochastic nature. To address this challenge, we introduce a novel Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion (MG-TSD) model, which achieves state-of-the-art predictive performance by leveraging the inherent granularity levels within the data as given targets at intermediate diffusion steps to guide the learning process of diffusion models. The way to construct the targets is motivated by the observation that the forward process of the diffusion model, which sequentially corrupts the data distribution to a standard normal distribution, intuitively aligns with the process of smoothing fine-grained data into a coarse-grained representation, both of which result in a gradual loss of fine distribution features. In the study, we derive a novel multi-granularity guidance diffusion loss function and propose a concise implementation method to effectively utilize coarse-grained data across various granularity levels. More importantly, our approach does not rely on additional external data, making it versatile and applicable across various domains. Extensive experiments conducted on real-world datasets demonstrate that our MG-TSD model outperforms existing time series prediction methods.
title MG-TSD: Multi-Granularity Time Series Diffusion Models with Guided Learning Process
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05751