针对多变量时间序列缺失数据，提出抗分布偏移的鲁棒填补方法。
Multivariate Time Series Data Imputation via Distributionally Robust Regularization
- 在Wasserstein模糊集内优化最坏情况分布差异，兼顾重建误差与分布鲁棒性。
- 在多个真实数据集上，相比基线方法显著提升填补精度，尤其在系统性缺失场景下。
- 适合处理非平稳、缺失模式复杂的工业或医疗时间序列数据。
多变量时间序列填补常受观测数据与真实数据分布不匹配的影响，这种偏差源于时间序列非平稳性和系统性缺失的共同作用。传统方法通过点对点重建或直接分布对齐，容易过拟合有偏观测。本文提出分布鲁棒正则化填补目标（DRIO），联合最小化重建误差与在Wasserstein模糊集内，填补分布与数据分布之间的最坏情况差异。我们推导出可计算的上界代理，将无限维测度优化转化为对样本轨迹的对抗搜索，并设计了适配现代深度学习骨干网络的交替学习算法。在多种真实世界数据集上的全面实验表明，DRIO能持续提供鲁棒的填补效果，并在不同缺失情景下改善下游预测性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multivariate time series imputation is often compromised by mismatch between the observed and true data distributions, a bias induced by the combined effects of time-series non-stationarity and systematic missingness. Standard methods that encourage point-wise reconstruction or direct distributional alignment may overfit these biased observations. We propose the Distributionally Robust Regularized Imputer Objective (DRIO), which jointly minimizes reconstruction error and the worst-case divergence between the imputer distribution and data distributions within a Wasserstein ambiguity set. We derive a tractable upper-bound surrogate that reduces infinite-dimensional optimization over measures to adversarial search over sample trajectories, and develop an alternating learning algorithm compatible with modern deep learning backbones. Comprehensive experiments on diverse real-world datasets show that DRIO consistently provides robust imputation and suggests improved downstream forecasting under various missingness scenarios.
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