arXiv:2604.27182cs.LGcs.AI2026-04

用马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛方法保留时间序列生成中的动态规律。

Preserving Temporal Dynamics in Time Series Generation

论文配图:Preserving Temporal Dynamics in Time Series Generation
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  • 基于MCMC框架修正生成过程中的时序偏差
  • 在多个数据集上提升自相关对齐与预测性能
  • 适合需要高保真时间序列生成的研究者

时间序列数据增强在回归导向的预测任务中至关重要,因数据有限而制约深度学习模型表现。尽管生成对抗网络(GAN)在合成时间序列方面展现出潜力,但现有方法多关注边缘分布匹配,忽略原始多变量时间序列中存在的时序动态。生成过程中这种不一致导致分布偏移和时序漂移,降低合成序列保真度。本文提出一种模型无关的基于马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛(MCMC)的框架,以缓解分布偏移并保留时序动态。理论分析表明,条件生成模型在序列生成中会累积偏差,而MCMC通过强制邻近时间点间的经验转移统计一致性,可有效纠正这些偏差。在Lorenz、Licor、ETTh、ILI数据集上,使用RCGAN、GCWGAN、TimeGAN、SigCWGAN、AECGAN进行的大量实验表明,所提MCMC框架在自相关对齐、偏度误差、峰度误差、R²、判别得分和预测得分等方面均持续提升。结果表明,合成时间序列的高保真度需显式保留转移规律,而非仅依赖对抗性分布匹配,为时间序列生成建模提供了原则性方向。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Time-series data augmentation plays a crucial role in regression-oriented forecasting tasks, where limited data restricts the performance of deep learning models. While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have shown promise in synthetic time-series generation, existing approaches primarily focus on matching marginal data distributions and often overlook the temporal dynamics that naturally exist in the original multivariate time series. When generating multivariate time series, this mismatch leads to distribution shift and temporal drift, thereby degrading the fidelity of the synthetic sequences. In this work, we propose a model-agnostic Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)-based framework to mitigate distribution shift and preserve temporal dynamics in synthetic time series. We provide a theoretical analysis of how conditional generative models accumulate deviations under sequential generation and demonstrate that the MCMC algorithm can correct these discrepancies by enforcing consistency with empirical transition statistics between neighboring time points. Extensive experiments on the Lorenz, Licor, ETTh, and ILI datasets using RCGAN, GCWGAN, TimeGAN, SigCWGAN, and AECGAN demonstrate that the proposed MCMC framework consistently improves autocorrelation alignment, skewness error, kurtosis error, R$^2$, discriminative score, and predictive score. These results suggest that synthetic time series consistent with the original data require explicit preservation of transition laws rather than solely relying on adversarial distribution matching, thereby offering a principled direction for improving generative modeling of time-series data.

时间序列生成MCMC动态保留数据增强

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