TimesURL: Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Universal Time Series Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2312.15709v1
• Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2023 12:23:26 GMT
• Title: TimesURL: Self-supervised Contrastive Learning for Universal Time Series Representation Learning
• Authors: Jiexi Liu, Songcan Chen
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel self-supervised framework named TimesURL to tackle time series representation. Specifically, we first introduce a frequency-temporal-based augmentation to keep the temporal property unchanged. We also construct double Universums as a special kind of hard negative to guide better contrastive learning.
• Score: 31.458689807334228
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning universal time series representations applicable to various types of downstream tasks is challenging but valuable in real applications. Recently, researchers have attempted to leverage the success of self-supervised contrastive learning (SSCL) in Computer Vision(CV) and Natural Language Processing(NLP) to tackle time series representation. Nevertheless, due to the special temporal characteristics, relying solely on empirical guidance from other domains may be ineffective for time series and difficult to adapt to multiple downstream tasks. To this end, we review three parts involved in SSCL including 1) designing augmentation methods for positive pairs, 2) constructing (hard) negative pairs, and 3) designing SSCL loss. For 1) and 2), we find that unsuitable positive and negative pair construction may introduce inappropriate inductive biases, which neither preserve temporal properties nor provide sufficient discriminative features. For 3), just exploring segment- or instance-level semantics information is not enough for learning universal representation. To remedy the above issues, we propose a novel self-supervised framework named TimesURL. Specifically, we first introduce a frequency-temporal-based augmentation to keep the temporal property unchanged. And then, we construct double Universums as a special kind of hard negative to guide better contrastive learning. Additionally, we introduce time reconstruction as a joint optimization objective with contrastive learning to capture both segment-level and instance-level information. As a result, TimesURL can learn high-quality universal representations and achieve state-of-the-art performance in 6 different downstream tasks, including short- and long-term forecasting, imputation, classification, anomaly detection and transfer learning.

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