EXPLAINING TIME SERIES VIA CONTRASTIVE AND LOCALLY SPARSE PERTURBATIONS

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

1-1-2024

Abstract

Explaining multivariate time series is a compound challenge, as it requires identifying important locations in the time series and matching complex temporal patterns. Although previous saliency-based methods addressed the challenges, their perturbation may not alleviate the distribution shift issue, which is inevitable especially in heterogeneous samples. We present ContraLSP, a locally sparse model that introduces counterfactual samples to build uninformative perturbations but keeps distribution using contrastive learning. Furthermore, we incorporate sample-specific sparse gates to generate more binary-skewed and smooth masks, which easily integrate temporal trends and select the salient features parsimoniously. Empirical studies on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that ContraLSP outperforms state-of-the-art models, demonstrating a substantial improvement in explanation quality for time series data. The source code is available at https://github.com/zichuan-liu/ContraLSP.

Identifier

85197706104 (Scopus)

Publication Title

12th International Conference on Learning Representations, ICLR 2024

Fund Ref

GABA International

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