IMFACT: Counterfactual Explanations for Time Series via Intrinsic Mode Function Substitution

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.04777v1
• Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:43:33 GMT
• Title: IMFACT: Counterfactual Explanations for Time Series via Intrinsic Mode Function Substitution
• Abstract summary: IMFACT (IMF-based counterfACTuals) is a model-agnostic framework for generating plausible counterfactual explanations.<n>An input signal is split into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) and selected IMFs are progressively substituted with those of a Nearest Neighbour (NUN)<n>We evaluate six IMF-selection strategies and a multi-NUN cycling extension on two UCR benchmarks (DetectionA, FruitFlies)
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Oscillatory signals, such as vibration, carry class-discriminative information in specific frequency bands; perturbing them in raw feature space for counterfactual analysis easily destroys their temporal structure and produces physically implausible results. In this work, we introduce IMFACT (IMF-based counterfACTuals), a model-agnostic framework for generating plausible counterfactual explanations for time series classifiers that operates in the decomposition space of Empirical Mode Decomposition. An input signal is split into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs), and selected IMFs are progressively substituted with those of a Nearest Unlike Neighbour (NUN) until the classifier flips to the target class. We evaluate six IMF-selection strategies and a multi-NUN cycling extension on two UCR benchmarks (FaultDetectionA, FruitFlies). The variance-based strategy with three NUNs outperforms two prominent baseline techniques on reliability and plausibility metrics, while cycling across three NUNs yields the best proximity across both datasets.

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