Continuous Time Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.13503v1
• Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2023 13:54:00 GMT
• Title: Continuous Time Evidential Distributions for Irregular Time Series
• Authors: Taylor W. Killian, Haoran Zhang, Thomas Hartvigsen, Ava P. Amini
• Abstract summary: We present EDICT, a strategy that learns an evidential distribution over irregular time series in continuous time. This distribution enables well-calibrated and flexible inference of partially observed features at any time of interest. We demonstrate that EDICT attains competitive performance on challenging time series classification tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Prevalent in many real-world settings such as healthcare, irregular time series are challenging to formulate predictions from. It is difficult to infer the value of a feature at any given time when observations are sporadic, as it could take on a range of values depending on when it was last observed. To characterize this uncertainty we present EDICT, a strategy that learns an evidential distribution over irregular time series in continuous time. This distribution enables well-calibrated and flexible inference of partially observed features at any time of interest, while expanding uncertainty temporally for sparse, irregular observations. We demonstrate that EDICT attains competitive performance on challenging time series classification tasks and enabling uncertainty-guided inference when encountering noisy data.

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