Diffusion-Guided Diversity for Single Domain Generalization in Time Series ClassificationShow others and affiliations
2025 (English)In: KDD 2025: Proceedings of the 31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025, Vol. 2, p. 3764-3773Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Single-domain generalization (SDG) in time series classification (TSC) poses significant challenges for current time-series domain generalization methods due to the extremely limited data available from only one source domain. In this study, we propose Segment-dErived Expansion of Domains (SEED), a diffusion-based method that effectively expands domain diversity for SDG. We reveal that individual instances exhibit intrinsic temporal shifts over time, which provides a principled foundation for creating multiple pseudo domains by segmenting each instance into distinct parts. To do so, SEED extracts two complementary representations from each time-series segment: 1) a segment-specific representation that captures diverse distributional variations, and 2) a segment-invariant representation that preserves class semantics. SEED formulates these representations as pseudo-domain prompts to guide a diffusion model in generating diverse yet semantically consistent time-series data. Additionally, SEED introduces a novel prompt-fused sampling for diffusion, enabling flexible recombination of segment-specific features to continuously expand the pseudo-domain space. We provide both theoretical analysis and extensive empirical evaluations on four widely used TSC benchmarks to validate its ability in reducing generalization error and improving model's performances in SDG. In our experiments, SEED significantly improves classification accuracy by 7.68% on average compared to the strong baselines.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) , 2025. Vol. 2, p. 3764-3773
Keywords [en]
diffusion model, single domain generalization, temporal covariate shift, time series classification
National Category
Computer Sciences Probability Theory and Statistics Computer graphics and computer vision Other Computer and Information Science
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-370317DOI: 10.1145/3711896.3736909ISI: 001592428900326Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105014313384OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-370317DiVA, id: diva2:2000650
Conference
31st ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, KDD 2025, Toronto, Canada, Aug 3 2025 - Aug 7 2025
Note
Part of ISBN 9798400714542
QC 20250924
2025-09-242025-09-242026-05-29Bibliographically approved