Time Series Generation Under Data Scarcity: A Unified Generative Modeling Approach

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.20446v1
• Date: Mon, 26 May 2025 18:39:04 GMT
• Title: Time Series Generation Under Data Scarcity: A Unified Generative Modeling Approach
• Authors: Tal Gonen, Itai Pemper, Ilan Naiman, Nimrod Berman, Omri Azencot,
• Abstract summary: We conduct the first large-scale study evaluating leading generative models in data-scarce settings.<n>We propose a unified diffusion-based generative framework that can synthesize high-fidelity time series using just a few examples.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Generative modeling of time series is a central challenge in time series analysis, particularly under data-scarce conditions. Despite recent advances in generative modeling, a comprehensive understanding of how state-of-the-art generative models perform under limited supervision remains lacking. In this work, we conduct the first large-scale study evaluating leading generative models in data-scarce settings, revealing a substantial performance gap between full-data and data-scarce regimes. To close this gap, we propose a unified diffusion-based generative framework that can synthesize high-fidelity time series across diverse domains using just a few examples. Our model is pre-trained on a large, heterogeneous collection of time series datasets, enabling it to learn generalizable temporal representations. It further incorporates architectural innovations such as dynamic convolutional layers for flexible channel adaptation and dataset token conditioning for domain-aware generation. Without requiring abundant supervision, our unified model achieves state-of-the-art performance in few-shot settings-outperforming domain-specific baselines across a wide range of subset sizes. Remarkably, it also surpasses all baselines even when tested on full datasets benchmarks, highlighting the strength of pre-training and cross-domain generalization. We hope this work encourages the community to revisit few-shot generative modeling as a key problem in time series research and pursue unified solutions that scale efficiently across domains. Code is available at https://github.com/azencot-group/ImagenFew.

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