A Transformer-based Framework for Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02803v3
• Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 21:57:10 GMT
• Title: A Transformer-based Framework for Multivariate Time Series Representation Learning
• Authors: George Zerveas, Srideepika Jayaraman, Dhaval Patel, Anuradha Bhamidipaty, Carsten Eickhoff
• Abstract summary: Pre-trained models can be potentially used for downstream tasks such as regression and classification, forecasting and missing value imputation. We show that our modeling approach represents the most successful method employing unsupervised learning of multivariate time series presented to date. We demonstrate that unsupervised pre-training of our transformer models offers a substantial performance benefit over fully supervised learning.
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• Abstract: In this work we propose for the first time a transformer-based framework for unsupervised representation learning of multivariate time series. Pre-trained models can be potentially used for downstream tasks such as regression and classification, forecasting and missing value imputation. By evaluating our models on several benchmark datasets for multivariate time series regression and classification, we show that not only does our modeling approach represent the most successful method employing unsupervised learning of multivariate time series presented to date, but also that it exceeds the current state-of-the-art performance of supervised methods; it does so even when the number of training samples is very limited, while offering computational efficiency. Finally, we demonstrate that unsupervised pre-training of our transformer models offers a substantial performance benefit over fully supervised learning, even without leveraging additional unlabeled data, i.e., by reusing the same data samples through the unsupervised objective.

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