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Poster
Non-autoregressive Conditional Diffusion Models for Time Series Prediction
Lifeng Shen · James Kwok

Thu Jul 27 04:30 PM -- 06:00 PM (PDT) @ Exhibit Hall 1 #123
in Poster Session 6 »

Recently, denoising diffusion models have led to significant breakthroughs in the generation of images, audio and text. However, it is still an open question on how to adapt their strong modeling ability to model time series. In this paper, we propose TimeDiff, a non-autoregressive diffusion model that achieves high-quality time series prediction with the introduction of two novel conditioning mechanisms: future mixup and autoregressive initialization. Similar to teacher forcing, future mixup allows parts of the ground-truth future predictions for conditioning, while autoregressive initialization helps better initialize the model with basic time series patterns such as short-term trends. Extensive experiments are performed on nine real-world datasets. Results show that TimeDiff consistently outperforms existing time series diffusion models, and also achieves the best overall performance across a variety of the existing strong baselines (including transformers and FiLM).

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Lifeng Shen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
James Kwok (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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