A Total Variation Based Method for Multivariate Time Series Segmentation

A Total Variation Based Method for Multivariate Time Series Segmentation

Year:    2023

Author:    Min Li, Yumei Huang, Youwei Wen

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 15 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 300–321

Abstract

Multivariate time series segmentation is an important problem in data mining and it has arisen in more and more practical applications in recent years. The task of time series segmentation is to partition a time series into segments by detecting the abrupt changes or anomalies in the time series. Multivariate time series segmentation can provide meaningful information for further data analysis, prediction and policy decision. A time series can be considered as a piecewise continuous function, it is natural to take its total variation norm as a prior information of this time series. In this paper, by minimizing the negative log-likelihood function of a time series, we propose a total variation based model for multivariate time series segmentation. An iterative process is applied to solve the proposed model and a search combined the dynamic programming method is designed to determine the breakpoints. The experimental results show that the proposed method is efficient for multivariate time series segmentation and it is competitive to the existing methods for multivariate time series segmentation.

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Journal Article Details

Publisher Name:    Global Science Press

Language:    English

DOI:    https://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.OA-2021-0209

Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Vol. 15 (2023), Iss. 2 : pp. 300–321

Published online:    2023-01

AMS Subject Headings:    Global Science Press

Copyright:    COPYRIGHT: © Global Science Press

Pages:    22

Keywords:    Multivariate time series segmentation total variation dynamic programming.

Author Details

Min Li

Yumei Huang

Youwei Wen