LETS-C: Leveraging Text Embedding for Time Series Classification

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Hauptverfasser: Kaur, Rachneet, Zeng, Zhen, Balch, Tucker, Veloso, Manuela
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author Kaur, Rachneet
Zeng, Zhen
Balch, Tucker
Veloso, Manuela
author_facet Kaur, Rachneet
Zeng, Zhen
Balch, Tucker
Veloso, Manuela
contents Recent advancements in language modeling have shown promising results when applied to time series data. In particular, fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for time series classification tasks has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on standard benchmarks. However, these LLM-based models have a significant drawback due to the large model size, with the number of trainable parameters in the millions. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to leveraging the success of language modeling in the time series domain. Instead of fine-tuning LLMs, we utilize a text embedding model to embed time series and then pair the embeddings with a simple classification head composed of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and multilayer perceptron (MLP). We conducted extensive experiments on a well-established time series classification benchmark. We demonstrated LETS-C not only outperforms the current SOTA in classification accuracy but also offers a lightweight solution, using only 14.5% of the trainable parameters on average compared to the SOTA model. Our findings suggest that leveraging text embedding models to encode time series data, combined with a simple yet effective classification head, offers a promising direction for achieving high-performance time series classification while maintaining a lightweight model architecture.
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spellingShingle LETS-C: Leveraging Text Embedding for Time Series Classification
Kaur, Rachneet
Zeng, Zhen
Balch, Tucker
Veloso, Manuela
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Computation and Language
Methodology
Recent advancements in language modeling have shown promising results when applied to time series data. In particular, fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs) for time series classification tasks has achieved state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on standard benchmarks. However, these LLM-based models have a significant drawback due to the large model size, with the number of trainable parameters in the millions. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to leveraging the success of language modeling in the time series domain. Instead of fine-tuning LLMs, we utilize a text embedding model to embed time series and then pair the embeddings with a simple classification head composed of convolutional neural networks (CNN) and multilayer perceptron (MLP). We conducted extensive experiments on a well-established time series classification benchmark. We demonstrated LETS-C not only outperforms the current SOTA in classification accuracy but also offers a lightweight solution, using only 14.5% of the trainable parameters on average compared to the SOTA model. Our findings suggest that leveraging text embedding models to encode time series data, combined with a simple yet effective classification head, offers a promising direction for achieving high-performance time series classification while maintaining a lightweight model architecture.
title LETS-C: Leveraging Text Embedding for Time Series Classification
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science
Computation and Language
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.06533