Cascade-KDE: Robust Time-Series Restoration under Out-of-Distribution Impulse Corruptions

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Main Authors: Liu, Yuefeng, Yang, Ning, Yang, Ziyu
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author Liu, Yuefeng
Yang, Ning
Yang, Ziyu
author_facet Liu, Yuefeng
Yang, Ning
Yang, Ziyu
contents Real-world time-series data in industrial sensing, healthcare, and energy systems is often corrupted by a mixture of Gaussian noise and occasional large-magnitude impulse outliers. For tasks that depend on local shape, such as ECG morphology analysis and battery degradation monitoring, the main requirement is not only low reconstruction error but also preservation of derivative peaks and task-critical features. We propose Cascade-KDE, a training-free restoration framework for corrupted time series. The method first estimates a two-dimensional temporal-amplitude density, then applies a Density-Truncated Robust Expectation to limit the influence of distant abnormal points, and finally refines the sequence through an exponential cascade with adaptive stopping. This design aims to improve robustness under out-of-distribution impulse corruptions while keeping the restored trajectory close to the original local structure. Across several benchmark datasets, the proposed method shows consistent gains over classical filters and representative learning-based baselines on curve fidelity, derivative preservation, downstream classification, and runtime efficiency. These results suggest that bounded density-based restoration is a practical option for feature-preserving preprocessing in noisy time-series pipelines.
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spellingShingle Cascade-KDE: Robust Time-Series Restoration under Out-of-Distribution Impulse Corruptions
Liu, Yuefeng
Yang, Ning
Yang, Ziyu
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Real-world time-series data in industrial sensing, healthcare, and energy systems is often corrupted by a mixture of Gaussian noise and occasional large-magnitude impulse outliers. For tasks that depend on local shape, such as ECG morphology analysis and battery degradation monitoring, the main requirement is not only low reconstruction error but also preservation of derivative peaks and task-critical features. We propose Cascade-KDE, a training-free restoration framework for corrupted time series. The method first estimates a two-dimensional temporal-amplitude density, then applies a Density-Truncated Robust Expectation to limit the influence of distant abnormal points, and finally refines the sequence through an exponential cascade with adaptive stopping. This design aims to improve robustness under out-of-distribution impulse corruptions while keeping the restored trajectory close to the original local structure. Across several benchmark datasets, the proposed method shows consistent gains over classical filters and representative learning-based baselines on curve fidelity, derivative preservation, downstream classification, and runtime efficiency. These results suggest that bounded density-based restoration is a practical option for feature-preserving preprocessing in noisy time-series pipelines.
title Cascade-KDE: Robust Time-Series Restoration under Out-of-Distribution Impulse Corruptions
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.24055