Symbol-Temporal Consistency Self-Supervised Learning for Robust Time Series Classification

Kevin Garcia, Cassandra Garza, Brooklyn Berry, Yifeng Gao

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Keywords: Self Supervised Learning, Time Series

Abstract: The surge in the significance of time series in digital health domains necessitates advanced methodologies for extracting meaningful patterns and representations. Self-supervised contrastive learning has emerged as a promising approach for learning directly from raw data. However, time series data in digital health is known to be highly noisy, inherently involves evolving, and poses a challenge for training a generalizable deep learning model, especially in the context of data distribution shift. In this paper, we specifically focus on data distribution shift caused by different human behaviors and propose a self-supervised learning framework that is aware of the bag-of-symbol representation. The bag-of-symbol representation is known for its insensitivity to data warping, location shifts, and noise existed in time series data, making it potentially pivotal in guiding deep learning to acquire a representation resistant to such data shifting. We demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve significantly better performance where significant data shifting exists.

Track: 3. Signal processing, machine learning, deep learning, and decision-support algorithms for digital and computational health

NominateReviewer: Brooklyn Berry, [e-mail]

Submission Number: 117