用符号压缩与聚类+专家验证,自动标注太阳风时间序列数据
CIPHER: Scalable Time Series Analysis for Physical Sciences with Application to Solar Wind Phenomena
- 先用iSAX压缩时间序列,再用HDBSCAN聚类相似模式
- 专家只标代表性样本,标签自动推广到整个簇,效率提升显著
- 适合物理领域时间序列标签稀缺场景,可复现可推广
在物理科学中,时间序列的标注始终是难题:专家标注稀少、成本高且不一致。但机器学习需要可靠标注来实现理解与预测。我们提出CIPHER框架,整合可索引的符号近似(iSAX)进行可解释压缩与索引,采用密度聚类(HDBSCAN)识别重复出现的现象,并引入人机协同步骤由领域专家高效验证。代表性样本由科学家标注后,标签被传播至所属簇,实现系统化、可扩展的分类。我们在OMNI数据集上评估了该框架对太阳风现象的分类任务,成功识别出日冕物质抛射和流相互作用区等关键现象。该方法为物理科学中时间序列标注短缺问题提供了一种通用解决方案,结合符号表示、无监督学习与专家知识,具有广泛适用性。代码与配置文件已公开,支持可复现性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Labeling or classifying time series is a persistent challenge in the physical sciences, where expert annotations are scarce, costly, and often inconsistent. Yet robust labeling is essential to enable machine learning models for understanding, prediction, and forecasting. We present the \textit{Clustering and Indexation Pipeline with Human Evaluation for Recognition} (CIPHER), a framework designed to accelerate large-scale labeling of complex time series in physics. CIPHER integrates \textit{indexable Symbolic Aggregate approXimation} (iSAX) for interpretable compression and indexing, density-based clustering (HDBSCAN) to group recurring phenomena, and a human-in-the-loop step for efficient expert validation. Representative samples are labeled by domain scientists, and these annotations are propagated across clusters to yield systematic, scalable classifications. We evaluate CIPHER on the task of classifying solar wind phenomena in OMNI data, a central challenge in space weather research, showing that the framework recovers meaningful phenomena such as coronal mass ejections and stream interaction regions. Beyond this case study, CIPHER highlights a general strategy for combining symbolic representations, unsupervised learning, and expert knowledge to address label scarcity in time series across the physical sciences. The code and configuration files used in this study are publicly available to support reproducibility.
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