SigTime: Learning and Visually Explaining Time Series Signatures

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2512.12076v1
• Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:47:34 GMT
• Title: SigTime: Learning and Visually Explaining Time Series Signatures
• Authors: Yu-Chia Huang, Juntong Chen, Dongyu Liu, Kwan-Liu Ma,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a novel learning framework that jointly trains two Transformer models using complementary time series representations.<n>The learned shapelets serve as interpretable signatures that differentiate time series across classification labels.<n>We develop a visual analytics system -- SigTIme -- with coordinated views to facilitate exploration of time series signatures.
• Score: 22.200677868580204
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Understanding and distinguishing temporal patterns in time series data is essential for scientific discovery and decision-making. For example, in biomedical research, uncovering meaningful patterns in physiological signals can improve diagnosis, risk assessment, and patient outcomes. However, existing methods for time series pattern discovery face major challenges, including high computational complexity, limited interpretability, and difficulty in capturing meaningful temporal structures. To address these gaps, we introduce a novel learning framework that jointly trains two Transformer models using complementary time series representations: shapelet-based representations to capture localized temporal structures and traditional feature engineering to encode statistical properties. The learned shapelets serve as interpretable signatures that differentiate time series across classification labels. Additionally, we develop a visual analytics system -- SigTIme -- with coordinated views to facilitate exploration of time series signatures from multiple perspectives, aiding in useful insights generation. We quantitatively evaluate our learning framework on eight publicly available datasets and one proprietary clinical dataset. Additionally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our system through two usage scenarios along with the domain experts: one involving public ECG data and the other focused on preterm labor analysis.

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