Summary of Sigdiffusions: Score-based Diffusion Models For Time Series Via Log-signature Embeddings, by Barbora Barancikova et al.
SigDiffusions: Score-Based Diffusion Models for Time Series via Log-Signature Embeddings
by Barbora Barancikova, Zhuoyue Huang, Cristopher Salvi
First submitted to arxiv on: 14 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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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 introduces SigDiffusion, a novel diffusion model for generating long multivariate time series. By viewing a time series as the discretization of an underlying continuous process, the authors develop a method that operates on log-signature embeddings of the data. The forward and backward processes gradually perturb and denoise log-signatures while preserving their algebraic structure. The paper also provides new closed-form inversion formulae for recovering signals from log-signatures. Finally, it demonstrates that combining SigDiffusions with these inversion formulae results in high-quality long time series generation, competitive with the current state-of-the-art on various datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary SigDiffusion is a new way to create long time series data. It’s like taking a bunch of numbers and turning them into a smooth curve. The authors came up with a special way to look at time series as if they’re made up of smaller pieces that can be adjusted. They used this idea to make a model that can generate long time series that are similar to real-world data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion model * Time series
