TimeCluster with PCA is Equivalent to Subspace Identification of Linear Dynamical Systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12895v1
• Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2025 09:50:35 GMT
• Title: TimeCluster with PCA is Equivalent to Subspace Identification of Linear Dynamical Systems
• Abstract summary: TimeCluster is a visual analytics technique for discovering structure in long time series by projecting overlapping windows of data into a low-dimensional space.<n>We show that, when Principal Component Analysis is chosen as the dimensionality reduction technique, this procedure is mathematically equivalent to classical linear subspace identification.<n>In both approaches, the same low-dimensional linear subspace is extracted from the time series data.
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• Abstract: TimeCluster is a visual analytics technique for discovering structure in long multivariate time series by projecting overlapping windows of data into a low-dimensional space. We show that, when Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is chosen as the dimensionality reduction technique, this procedure is mathematically equivalent to classical linear subspace identification (block-Hankel matrix plus Singular Vector Decomposition (SVD)). In both approaches, the same low-dimensional linear subspace is extracted from the time series data. We first review the TimeCluster method and the theory of subspace system identification. Then we show that forming the sliding-window matrix of a time series yields a Hankel matrix, so applying PCA (via SVD) to this matrix recovers the same principal directions as subspace identification. Thus the cluster coordinates from TimeCluster coincide with the subspace identification methods. We present experiments on synthetic and real dynamical signals confirming that the two embeddings coincide. Finally, we explore and discuss future opportunities enabled by this equivalence, including forecasting from the identified state space, streaming/online extensions, incorporating and visualising external inputs and robust techniques for displaying underlying trends in corrupted data.

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