Summary of Tslanet: Rethinking Transformers For Time Series Representation Learning, by Emadeldeen Eldele et al.
TSLANet: Rethinking Transformers for Time Series Representation Learning
by Emadeldeen Eldele, Mohamed Ragab, Zhenghua Chen, Min Wu, Xiaoli Li
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 TSLANet, a universal convolutional model for diverse time series tasks. The authors tackle the limitations of Transformer-based models in capturing long-range dependencies while addressing noise sensitivity, computational efficiency, and overfitting with smaller datasets. To achieve this, they propose an Adaptive Spectral Block, harnessing Fourier analysis to enhance feature representation and capture both long-term and short-term interactions, as well as mitigating noise via adaptive thresholding. Additionally, the authors introduce an Interactive Convolution Block and leverage self-supervised learning to refine TSLANet’s capacity for decoding complex temporal patterns and improve its robustness on different datasets. Experimental results demonstrate that TSLANet outperforms state-of-the-art models in various tasks, including classification, forecasting, and anomaly detection. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary TSLANet is a new way to analyze time series data. Time series data has patterns that can be long or short-term, but it’s hard to find the right model that can capture both. The authors created TSLANet, which uses an adaptive block to make the model better at handling noise and finding patterns. They also added a special kind of convolutional block that helps the model learn from itself. This makes the model more robust and able to handle different types of data. The results show that TSLANet is better than other models at tasks like predicting what will happen next, identifying unusual events, and categorizing data. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Anomaly detection * Classification * Overfitting * Self supervised * Time series * Transformer
