A Diffusion Model for Regular Time Series Generation from Irregular Data with Completion and Masking

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06699v1
• Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2025 06:47:58 GMT
• Title: A Diffusion Model for Regular Time Series Generation from Irregular Data with Completion and Masking
• Abstract summary: Time series data is critical for applications in healthcare, finance, and science.<n>Time Series Transformer completes irregular sequences, creating natural neighborhoods.<n>Vision-based diffusion model with masking minimizes dependence on the completed values.
• Score: 14.384467317051834
• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Generating realistic time series data is critical for applications in healthcare, finance, and science. However, irregular sampling and missing values present significant challenges. While prior methods address these irregularities, they often yield suboptimal results and incur high computational costs. Recent advances in regular time series generation, such as the diffusion-based ImagenTime model, demonstrate strong, fast, and scalable generative capabilities by transforming time series into image representations, making them a promising solution. However, extending ImagenTime to irregular sequences using simple masking introduces "unnatural" neighborhoods, where missing values replaced by zeros disrupt the learning process. To overcome this, we propose a novel two-step framework: first, a Time Series Transformer completes irregular sequences, creating natural neighborhoods; second, a vision-based diffusion model with masking minimizes dependence on the completed values. This approach leverages the strengths of both completion and masking, enabling robust and efficient generation of realistic time series. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, achieving a relative improvement in discriminative score by $70\%$ and in computational cost by $85\%$. Code is at https://github.com/azencot-group/ImagenI2R.

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