arXiv:2603.11479cs.LGcs.AI2026-03中稿 · EMNLP

用语言描述检测多变量时间序列事件,还能生成可解释的推理树。

Grammar of the Wave: Towards Explainable Multivariate Time Series Event Detection via Neuro-Symbolic VLM Agents

  • 将自然语言事件描述转为带时序逻辑的结构化知识框架
  • 在少标注数据下实现精准事件定位与可解释推理
  • 适用于能源、气候等需高可靠性的实际场景

时间序列事件检测(TSED)旨在定位时间序列中具有语义意义的事件,广泛应用于高风险领域。与统计异常不同,事件常由跨多个物理通道的自然语言描述定义,并具备内部时序逻辑结构。然而,在真实场景中密集事件标注成本高昂,纯监督学习难以实施。本文提出语言引导的TSED任务:模型仅依赖文本事件描述,在少量甚至无标注数据下将事件锚定到多变量信号区间。为此,我们设计事件逻辑树(ELT),将语言描述转化为对信号基元的结构化时序逻辑。基于ELT,提出神经符号视觉语言代理框架SELA,通过迭代从信号可视化中识别基元并按ELT约束组合,输出事件区间及树状解释。此外,我们构建了覆盖能源与气候领域的现实世界基准数据集,包含专家知识与标注。实验表明,SELA优于监督微调及现有零/少样本时间序列推理基线。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Time Series Event Detection (TSED) aims to localize semantically meaningful events in time series data, with critical applications in high-stakes domains. Unlike statistical anomalies, events are often defined by natural-language descriptions with internal temporal-logic structures across multiple physical channels. However, in real-world settings, dense event annotations are expensive to obtain, making purely supervised learning difficult. We introduce Language-guided TSED, a setting where a model is given textual event descriptions and must ground them to intervals in multivariate signals with little or no labeled data. To address this problem, we propose Event Logic Tree (ELT), a knowledge representation framework that converts linguistic descriptions into structured temporal logic over signal primitives. Building on ELT, we present SELA, a neuro-symbolic VLM agent framework that iteratively grounds primitives from signal visualizations and composes them under ELT constraints, producing both event intervals and faithful tree-structured explanations. We further release a real-world benchmark across energy and climate domains with expert knowledge and annotations. Experiments show that SELA improves over supervised fine-tuning and existing zero/few-shot time series reasoning baselines.

事件检测可解释性多变量时序神经符号

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