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Main Authors: Ceccarello, Matteo, Monaco, Francesco Pio, Silvestri, Francesco
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14446
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author Ceccarello, Matteo
Monaco, Francesco Pio
Silvestri, Francesco
author_facet Ceccarello, Matteo
Monaco, Francesco Pio
Silvestri, Francesco
contents Time series play a fundamental role in many domains, capturing a plethora of information about the underlying data-generating processes. When a process generates multiple synchronized signals we are faced with multidimensional time series. In this context a fundamental problem is that of motif mining, where we seek patterns repeating twice with minor variations, spanning some of the dimensions. State of the art exact solutions for this problem run in time quadratic in the length of the input time series. We provide a scalable method to find the top-k motifs in multidimensional time series with probabilistic guarantees on the quality of the results. Our algorithm runs in time subquadratic in the length of the input, and returns the exact solution with probability at least $1-δ$, where $δ$ is a user-defined parameter. The algorithm is designed to be adaptive to the input distribution, self-tuning its parameters while respecting user-defined limits on the memory to use. Our theoretical analysis is complemented by an extensive experimental evaluation, showing that our algorithm is orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art.
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spellingShingle MOMENTI: Scalable Motif Mining in Multidimensional Time Series
Ceccarello, Matteo
Monaco, Francesco Pio
Silvestri, Francesco
Data Structures and Algorithms
Time series play a fundamental role in many domains, capturing a plethora of information about the underlying data-generating processes. When a process generates multiple synchronized signals we are faced with multidimensional time series. In this context a fundamental problem is that of motif mining, where we seek patterns repeating twice with minor variations, spanning some of the dimensions. State of the art exact solutions for this problem run in time quadratic in the length of the input time series. We provide a scalable method to find the top-k motifs in multidimensional time series with probabilistic guarantees on the quality of the results. Our algorithm runs in time subquadratic in the length of the input, and returns the exact solution with probability at least $1-δ$, where $δ$ is a user-defined parameter. The algorithm is designed to be adaptive to the input distribution, self-tuning its parameters while respecting user-defined limits on the memory to use. Our theoretical analysis is complemented by an extensive experimental evaluation, showing that our algorithm is orders of magnitude faster than the state of the art.
title MOMENTI: Scalable Motif Mining in Multidimensional Time Series
topic Data Structures and Algorithms
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.14446