Exploring Representations and Interventions in Time Series Foundation Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2409.12915v2
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:08:08 GMT
• Title: Exploring Representations and Interventions in Time Series Foundation Models
• Authors: Michał Wiliński, Mononito Goswami, Nina Żukowska, Willa Potosnak, Artur Dubrawski,
• Abstract summary: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) promise to be powerful tools for a wide range of applications. Their internal representations and learned concepts are still not well understood. This study investigates the structure and redundancy of representations across various TSFMs.
• Score: 17.224575072056627
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) promise to be powerful tools for a wide range of applications. However, their internal representations and learned concepts are still not well understood. In this study, we investigate the structure and redundancy of representations across various TSFMs, examining the self-similarity of model layers within and across different model sizes. This analysis reveals block-like redundancy in the representations, which can be utilized for informed pruning to improve inference speed and efficiency. Additionally, we explore the concepts learned by these models - such as periodicity and trends - and how these can be manipulated through latent space steering to influence model behavior. Our experiments show that steering interventions can introduce new features, e.g., adding periodicity or trends to signals that initially lacked them. These findings underscore the value of representational analysis for optimizing models and demonstrate how conceptual steering offers new possibilities for more controlled and efficient time series analysis with TSFMs.

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