DS-Diffusion: Data Style-Guided Diffusion Model for Time-Series Generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18584v2
• Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2025 09:15:05 GMT
• Title: DS-Diffusion: Data Style-Guided Diffusion Model for Time-Series Generation
• Authors: Mingchun Sun, Rongqiang Zhao, Hengrui Hu, Songyu Ding, Jie Liu,
• Abstract summary: We propose a data style-guided diffusion model (DS-Diffusion) for time series generation tasks.<n>The DS-Diffusion avoids retraining the entire framework to introduce conditional guidance.<n>The generated samples can clearly indicate the data style from which they originate.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Diffusion models are the mainstream approach for time series generation tasks. However, existing diffusion models for time series generation require retraining the entire framework to introduce specific conditional guidance. There also exists a certain degree of distributional bias between the generated data and the real data, which leads to potential model biases in downstream tasks. Additionally, the complexity of diffusion models and the latent spaces leads to an uninterpretable inference process. To address these issues, we propose the data style-guided diffusion model (DS-Diffusion). In the DS-Diffusion, a diffusion framework based on style-guided kernels is developed to avoid retraining for specific conditions. The time-information based hierarchical denoising mechanism (THD) is developed to reduce the distributional bias between the generated data and the real data. Furthermore, the generated samples can clearly indicate the data style from which they originate. We conduct comprehensive evaluations using multiple public datasets to validate our approach. Experimental results show that, compared to the state-of-the-art model such as ImagenTime, the predictive score and the discriminative score decrease by 5.56% and 61.55%, respectively. The distributional bias between the generated data and the real data is further reduced, the inference process is also more interpretable. Moreover, by eliminating the need to retrain the diffusion model, the flexibility and adaptability of the model to specific conditions are also enhanced.

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