Summary of Guidelines For Augmentation Selection in Contrastive Learning For Time Series Classification, by Ziyu Liu et al.
Guidelines for Augmentation Selection in Contrastive Learning for Time Series Classification
by Ziyu Liu, Azadeh Alavi, Minyi Li, Xiang Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 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 self-supervised contrastive learning framework is proposed for selecting augmentations in time series analysis, enabling the discovery of meaningful representations without explicit supervision. By analyzing dataset characteristics such as trend and seasonality, the framework identifies effective augmentations, achieving an average Recall@3 of 0.667. This outperforms baselines and provides guidance for studies employing contrastive learning in time series analysis. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper introduces a way to choose the right kind of changes (augmentations) for analyzing time series data without needing labels. It creates fake datasets with different patterns, then tries various augmentations on these datasets. This helps figure out which augmentations work best for specific kinds of data. The results show that this approach can accurately recommend good augmentations, and it’s more effective than just trying things randomly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Recall * Self supervised * Time series
