将表格去噪扩散模型扩展为时序数据生成,提升时间连贯性。
Extending Tabular Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models for Time-Series Data Generation

- 引入轻量级时序适配器和上下文嵌入模块,建模时间依赖关系。
- 在WISDM数据集上生成的合成时序数据接近真实传感器模式,分类性能达F1=0.64。
- 适合隐私保护下的小样本时序数据增强,尤其利于少数类表征。
扩散模型正被广泛用于生成合成表格与时序数据以实现隐私保护的数据增强。表格去噪扩散概率模型(TabDDPM)可从异构表格数据中生成高质量合成数据,但假设样本间相互独立,难以适用于依赖时间序列的场景。为此,本文提出一种时序扩展的TabDDPM,通过轻量级时序适配器和上下文感知嵌入模块实现序列感知。将传感器数据重构为窗口序列,并利用时间步嵌入、条件活动标签及观测/缺失掩码显式建模时间上下文,从而生成时间上连贯的合成序列。基于二元组转移矩阵与自相关分析的验证表明,该方法在时间真实性、多样性与连贯性方面优于基线与插值方法。在WISDM加速度计数据集上,生成的合成时序数据与真实世界传感器模式高度相似,分类性能达到宏平均F1-score 0.64,准确率0.71,尤其在少数类表示和统计分布对齐方面表现优异。结果表明,具备时序推理能力的扩散模型可有效且灵活地解决序列数据合成问题。未来工作将探索更长序列的扩展及更强时序架构的集成。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Diffusion models are increasingly being utilised to create synthetic tabular and time series data for privacy-preserving augmentation. Tabular Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models (TabDDPM) generate high-quality synthetic data from heterogeneous tabular datasets but assume independence between samples, limiting their applicability to time-series domains where temporal dependencies are critical. To address this, we propose a temporal extension of TabDDPM, introducing sequence awareness through the use of lightweight temporal adapters and context-aware embedding modules. By reformulating sensor data into windowed sequences and explicitly modeling temporal context via timestep embeddings, conditional activity labels, and observed/missing masks, our approach enables the generation of temporally coherent synthetic sequences. Compared to baseline and interpolation techniques, validation using bigram transition matrices and autocorrelation analysis shows enhanced temporal realism, diversity, and coherence. On the WISDM accelerometer dataset, the suggested system produces synthetic time-series that closely resemble real world sensor patterns and achieves comparable classification performance (macro F1-score 0.64, accuracy 0.71). This is especially advantageous for minority class representation and preserving statistical alignment with real distributions. These developments demonstrate that diffusion based models provide effective and adaptable solutions for sequential data synthesis when they are equipped for temporal reasoning. Future work will explore scaling to longer sequences and integrating stronger temporal architectures.
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