核心概念
REBAR method uses retrieval-based reconstruction to identify positive pairs in time-series contrastive learning, achieving state-of-the-art performance.
要約
1. Abstract
- Self-supervised contrastive learning relies on identifying positive data pairs for downstream tasks.
- Classical vision approaches use augmentations, but time-series lack obvious invariances.
- REBAR proposes a novel method using a learned measure for identifying positive pairs.
2. Introduction
- Self-supervised learning enables rich representations without labels, crucial for health applications.
- Contrastive learning constructs embeddings based on positive and negative pairs of unlabeled samples.
- Vision applications use augmentations to construct positive pairs, but time-series lack such invariances.
3. Data Extraction
- "Our main contributions in this work are:"
- "This is the first work to use a similarity measure to select positive and negative pairs in time-series contrastive learning."
- "We demonstrate that our learned measure predicts mutual class membership in a nearest neighbor sense."
4. Related Work
- Augmentation-based methods are common in time-series research, but the effectiveness varies across different works.
- Sampling-based methods like TNC sample nearby subsequences as positives and utilize hyperparameters for negatives.
5. Notation
- Dataset designated by A ∈ RN×U×D with N long time-series of U temporal length and D channels.
- X(i) ∈ RT ×D is a subsequence of A(i) with length T.
6. REBAR Approach
- REBAR cross-attention reconstructs ¯Xanchor by retrieving motifs from Xcand that match the context window.
- Design focuses on class-discriminative reconstruction using dilated convolutions for motif comparison.
7. Applying REBAR Measure in Contrastive Learning
- Positive instances are selected based on similarity to anchor using REBAR measure.
- Within-time-series loss captures how class labels change over time, while between-time-series loss captures differences among patients.
8. REBAR Nearest Neighbor Validation Experiment
- Validates that REBAR predicts mutual class membership effectively through nearest neighbor classification experiments.
9. Downstream Experiments and Results
- Linear probe classification results show that REBAR consistently outperforms other contrastive learning methods.
統計
"Through validation experiments, we show that the REBAR error is a predictor of mutual class membership."
"Our main contributions in this work are:"
"This is the first work to use a similarity measure to select positive and negative pairs in time-series contrastive learning."