Summary of Excon: Extreme Instance-based Contrastive Representation Learning Of Severely Imbalanced Multivariate Time Series For Solar Flare Prediction, by Onur Vural et al.
EXCON: Extreme Instance-based Contrastive Representation Learning of Severely Imbalanced Multivariate Time Series for Solar Flare Prediction
by Onur Vural, Shah Muhammad Hamdi, Soukaina Filali Boubrahimi
First submitted to arxiv on: 18 Nov 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new framework called EXCON is proposed for predicting solar flares from magnetic field data using contrastive representation learning. This approach addresses class imbalance issues in solar flare prediction tasks by minimizing intra-class variation and maximizing inter-class separation. The method consists of four stages: obtaining core features, selecting distinctive representations, training a temporal feature embedding module with an extreme reconstruction loss, and applying a classifier to the learned embeddings. Experimental results on benchmark datasets show that EXCON improves classification performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Solar flares are important events in heliophysics because they can affect both space-based systems and Earth’s infrastructure. Predicting solar flares is crucial for mitigating their impact. A new method called EXCON uses magnetic field data to predict solar flares. It addresses a common problem in machine learning, class imbalance, by making similar instances closer together and dissimilar ones farther apart. This approach can be used not just for predicting solar flares but also for other types of time series data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Embedding » Machine learning » Representation learning » Time series
