TimeBridge: Better Diffusion Prior Design with Bridge Models for Time Series Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2408.06672v2
• Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 01:37:09 GMT
• Title: TimeBridge: Better Diffusion Prior Design with Bridge Models for Time Series Generation
• Authors: Jinseong Park, Seungyun Lee, Woojin Jeong, Yujin Choi, Jaewook Lee,
• Abstract summary: Time series generation is widely used in real-world applications such as simulation, data augmentation, and hypothesis testing.<n> diffusion models have emerged as the de facto approach to time series generation, enabling diverse synthesis scenarios.<n>We propose TimeBridge, a framework that flexibly synthesizes time series data by using diffusion bridges to learn paths between a chosen prior and the data distribution.
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• Abstract: Time series generation is widely used in real-world applications such as simulation, data augmentation, and hypothesis testing. Recently, diffusion models have emerged as the de facto approach to time series generation, enabling diverse synthesis scenarios. However, the fixed standard-Gaussian diffusion prior may be ill-suited for general time series data, such as temporal order and fixed points. In this paper, we propose TimeBridge, a framework that flexibly synthesizes time series data by using diffusion bridges to learn paths between a chosen prior and the data distribution. We then explore several prior designs tailored to time series synthesis. Our framework covers (i) data- and time-dependent priors for unconditional generation and (ii) scale-preserving priors for conditional generation. Experiments show that our framework with data-driven priors outperforms standard diffusion models on time series generation.

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