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Main Authors: Yao, Pengshuai, Liu, Mengna, Cheng, Xu, Shi, Fan, Li, Huan, Liu, Xiufeng, Chen, Shengyong
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05849
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author Yao, Pengshuai
Liu, Mengna
Cheng, Xu
Shi, Fan
Li, Huan
Liu, Xiufeng
Chen, Shengyong
author_facet Yao, Pengshuai
Liu, Mengna
Cheng, Xu
Shi, Fan
Li, Huan
Liu, Xiufeng
Chen, Shengyong
contents Time series classification with missing data is a prevalent issue in time series analysis, as temporal data often contain missing values in practical applications. The traditional two-stage approach, which handles imputation and classification separately, can result in sub-optimal performance as label information is not utilized in the imputation process. On the other hand, a one-stage approach can learn features under missing information, but feature representation is limited as imputed errors are propagated in the classification process. To overcome these challenges, this study proposes an end-to-end neural network that unifies data imputation and representation learning within a single framework, allowing the imputation process to take advantage of label information. Differing from previous methods, our approach places less emphasis on the accuracy of imputation data and instead prioritizes classification performance. A specifically designed multi-scale feature learning module is implemented to extract useful information from the noise-imputation data. The proposed model is evaluated on 68 univariate time series datasets from the UCR archive, as well as a multivariate time series dataset with various missing data ratios and 4 real-world datasets with missing information. The results indicate that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for incomplete time series classification, particularly in scenarios with high levels of missing data.
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spellingShingle An End-to-End Model for Time Series Classification In the Presence of Missing Values
Yao, Pengshuai
Liu, Mengna
Cheng, Xu
Shi, Fan
Li, Huan
Liu, Xiufeng
Chen, Shengyong
Machine Learning
Time series classification with missing data is a prevalent issue in time series analysis, as temporal data often contain missing values in practical applications. The traditional two-stage approach, which handles imputation and classification separately, can result in sub-optimal performance as label information is not utilized in the imputation process. On the other hand, a one-stage approach can learn features under missing information, but feature representation is limited as imputed errors are propagated in the classification process. To overcome these challenges, this study proposes an end-to-end neural network that unifies data imputation and representation learning within a single framework, allowing the imputation process to take advantage of label information. Differing from previous methods, our approach places less emphasis on the accuracy of imputation data and instead prioritizes classification performance. A specifically designed multi-scale feature learning module is implemented to extract useful information from the noise-imputation data. The proposed model is evaluated on 68 univariate time series datasets from the UCR archive, as well as a multivariate time series dataset with various missing data ratios and 4 real-world datasets with missing information. The results indicate that the proposed model outperforms state-of-the-art approaches for incomplete time series classification, particularly in scenarios with high levels of missing data.
title An End-to-End Model for Time Series Classification In the Presence of Missing Values
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.05849