An Efficient Transport-Based Dissimilarity Measure for Time Series Classification under Warping Distortions

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Main Authors: Aldroubi, Akram, Martín, Rocío Díaz, Medri, Ivan, Pas, Kristofor E., Rohde, Gustavo K., Rubaiyat, Abu Hasnat Mohammad
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author Aldroubi, Akram
Martín, Rocío Díaz
Medri, Ivan
Pas, Kristofor E.
Rohde, Gustavo K.
Rubaiyat, Abu Hasnat Mohammad
author_facet Aldroubi, Akram
Martín, Rocío Díaz
Medri, Ivan
Pas, Kristofor E.
Rohde, Gustavo K.
Rubaiyat, Abu Hasnat Mohammad
contents Time Series Classification (TSC) is an important problem with numerous applications in science and technology. Dissimilarity-based approaches, such as Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), are classical methods for distinguishing time series when time deformations are confounding information. In this paper, starting from a deformation-based model for signal classes we define a problem statement for time series classification problem. We show that, under theoretically ideal conditions, a continuous version of classic 1NN-DTW method can solve the stated problem, even when only one training sample is available. In addition, we propose an alternative dissimilarity measure based on Optimal Transport and show that it can also solve the aforementioned problem statement at a significantly reduced computational cost. Finally, we demonstrate the application of the newly proposed approach in simulated and real time series classification data, showing the efficacy of the method.
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spellingShingle An Efficient Transport-Based Dissimilarity Measure for Time Series Classification under Warping Distortions
Aldroubi, Akram
Martín, Rocío Díaz
Medri, Ivan
Pas, Kristofor E.
Rohde, Gustavo K.
Rubaiyat, Abu Hasnat Mohammad
Information Theory
Machine Learning
68T01, 68T09, 68T10, 94A12
Time Series Classification (TSC) is an important problem with numerous applications in science and technology. Dissimilarity-based approaches, such as Dynamic Time Warping (DTW), are classical methods for distinguishing time series when time deformations are confounding information. In this paper, starting from a deformation-based model for signal classes we define a problem statement for time series classification problem. We show that, under theoretically ideal conditions, a continuous version of classic 1NN-DTW method can solve the stated problem, even when only one training sample is available. In addition, we propose an alternative dissimilarity measure based on Optimal Transport and show that it can also solve the aforementioned problem statement at a significantly reduced computational cost. Finally, we demonstrate the application of the newly proposed approach in simulated and real time series classification data, showing the efficacy of the method.
title An Efficient Transport-Based Dissimilarity Measure for Time Series Classification under Warping Distortions
topic Information Theory
Machine Learning
68T01, 68T09, 68T10, 94A12
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.05676