Summary of Unleash the Power Of Pre-trained Language Models For Irregularly Sampled Time Series, by Weijia Zhang et al.
Unleash The Power of Pre-Trained Language Models for Irregularly Sampled Time Series
by Weijia Zhang, Chenlong Yin, Hao Liu, Hui Xiong
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG); Applications (stat.AP)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A pre-trained language model (PLM) is a significant advancement in natural language processing. Researchers have been exploring ways to adapt PLMs for time series analysis, creating unified foundation models that can tackle various tasks. However, most studies focus on regularly sampled time series, neglecting irregularly sampled time series with non-uniform sampling intervals and missing data. This paper investigates the potential of PLMs for irregularly sampled time series (ISTS) analysis. We examine different methods for representing ISTS to maximize PLM efficacy and present a unified PLM-based framework called ISTS-PLM that integrates time-aware and variable-aware PLMs, learnable input embeddings, and task-specific output layers. Extensive experiments on a comprehensive benchmark show that the ISTS-PLM achieves state-of-the-art performance across various analytical tasks, including classification, interpolation, extrapolation, few-shot learning, and zero-shot learning in scientific domains like healthcare and biomechanics. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how to use special language models for time series data. Time series data is when we collect measurements over time, like temperatures or stock prices. The problem is that this data can be tricky because the times when we take these measurements aren’t always the same. This makes it hard for computers to understand and make predictions about the data. Researchers want to find a way to use special language models called pre-trained language models (PLMs) to make sense of this kind of data. They’re trying different ways to represent this data so that PLMs can work well with it. They also created a new framework, called ISTS-PLM, that combines some ideas together and uses it to do tasks like predicting what will happen in the future or filling in missing data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification » Few shot » Language model » Natural language processing » Time series » Zero shot
