Summary of Contiformer: Continuous-time Transformer For Irregular Time Series Modeling, by Yuqi Chen et al.
ContiFormer: Continuous-Time Transformer for Irregular Time Series Modeling
by Yuqi Chen, Kan Ren, Yansen Wang, Yuchen Fang, Weiwei Sun, Dongsheng Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Feb 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 This paper proposes a novel model, ContiFormer, that extends the Transformer’s relation modeling to the continuous-time domain. By combining the modeling abilities of Neural ODEs and Transformers, ContiFormer is designed to capture intricate correlations within irregular time series data. The authors mathematically characterize ContiFormer’s expressive power and demonstrate its superiority in modeling capacities and prediction performance on both synthetic and real-world datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper creates a new way to analyze patterns in data that changes over time, called ContiFormer. It combines two earlier ideas: Neural ODEs, which learn from data that flows smoothly, and Transformers, which help find relationships between different pieces of information. This combination allows ContiFormer to capture complex connections within the data. The authors show that ContiFormer is better than other models at predicting what will happen next in a sequence. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Time series * Transformer
