Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18686v1
• Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 12:32:19 GMT
• Title: Hierarchical Multimodal LLMs with Semantic Space Alignment for Enhanced Time Series Classification
• Authors: Xiaoyu Tao, Tingyue Pan, Mingyue Cheng, Yucong Luo,
• Abstract summary: HiTime is a hierarchical multi-modal model that seamlessly integrates temporal information into large language models. Our findings highlight the potential of integrating temporal features into LLMs, paving the way for advanced time series analysis.
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• Abstract: Leveraging large language models (LLMs) has garnered increasing attention and introduced novel perspectives in time series classification. However, existing approaches often overlook the crucial dynamic temporal information inherent in time series data and face challenges in aligning this data with textual semantics. To address these limitations, we propose HiTime, a hierarchical multi-modal model that seamlessly integrates temporal information into LLMs for multivariate time series classification (MTSC). Our model employs a hierarchical feature encoder to capture diverse aspects of time series data through both data-specific and task-specific embeddings. To facilitate semantic space alignment between time series and text, we introduce a dual-view contrastive alignment module that bridges the gap between modalities. Additionally, we adopt a hybrid prompting strategy to fine-tune the pre-trained LLM in a parameter-efficient manner. By effectively incorporating dynamic temporal features and ensuring semantic alignment, HiTime enables LLMs to process continuous time series data and achieves state-of-the-art classification performance through text generation. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that HiTime significantly enhances time series classification accuracy compared to most competitive baseline methods. Our findings highlight the potential of integrating temporal features into LLMs, paving the way for advanced time series analysis. The code is publicly available for further research and validation. Our codes are publicly available1.

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