Diffusion Auto-regressive Transformer for Effective Self-supervised Time Series Forecasting
Keywords: Self-supervised Learning, Diffusion Model, Time Series Forecasting
TL;DR: A novel generative self-supervised learning framework for time series forecasting that simultaneously models global sequence dependencies and captures local detail features effectively.
Abstract: Self-supervised learning has become an essential and popular approach for enhancing time series forecasting, enabling models to learn universal representations from unlabeled data. However, effectively capturing both the global sequence dependence and local detail features within time series data remains challenging. To address this, we propose a novel generative self-supervised method called TimeDART, denoting Diffusion Auto-regressive Transformer for Time series forecasting. In TimeDART, we treat time series patches as basic modeling units. For one thing, we employ an self-attention based Transformer encoder to model the dependencies of inter-patches. For another, we introduce diffusion and denoising mechanisms to capture the locality features of intra-patch. Notably, we design a cross-attention-based denoising decoder that allows for adjustable optimization difficulty in the self-supervised task, facilitating more effective self-supervised pre-training. Extensive experiments demonstrate that TimeDART achieves state-of-the-art fine-tuning performance compared to the most advanced competitive methods in forecasting tasks. Our code is publicly available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/TimeDART-2024.
Primary Area: learning on time series and dynamical systems
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