Summary of Utsd: Unified Time Series Diffusion Model, by Xiangkai Ma et al.
UTSD: Unified Time Series Diffusion Model
by Xiangkai Ma, Xiaobin Hong, Wenzhong Li, Sanglu Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Dec 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 presents a novel Unified Time Series Diffusion (UTSD) model that tackles the challenge of across-domain modeling in time series analysis. Unlike previous studies, which rely on statistical prior or prompt engineering, UTSD utilizes the powerful probability distribution modeling ability of Diffusion to capture the multi-domain probability distribution and generate predictions directly. The proposed UTSD consists of three pivotal designs: a condition network that captures fluctuation patterns, an adapter-based fine-tuning strategy for downstream tasks, and a diffusion denoising process with improved classifier-free guidance. The authors conduct extensive experiments on mainstream benchmarks, demonstrating the pre-trained UTSD’s superior zero-shot generalization ability and comparable performance to domain-specific proprietary models when trained from scratch. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about a new way to analyze time series data that works well across different domains. Right now, most methods are limited to one specific area, like stock prices or weather forecasts. The new model, called UTSD, can handle all these areas and even more. It’s based on something called Diffusion, which helps it understand the patterns in the data. The authors tested their model on many different datasets and found that it did really well, even without being trained specifically for each task. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Diffusion » Fine tuning » Generalization » Probability » Prompt » Time series » Zero shot
