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arxiv: 2306.10084 · v3 · submitted 2023-06-16 · 💻 cs.LG

Convolutional and Deep Learning based techniques for Time Series Ordinal Classification

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The pith

Adapting convolutional and deep learning methods to respect ordinal label order improves time series classification performance.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper establishes a first benchmark for time series ordinal classification by adapting existing convolutional and deep learning TSC methods to exploit ordered class labels. It selects 29 ordinal problems from standard archives and compares the adapted ordinal versions against nominal baselines using metrics that penalize distant misclassifications. The central finding is that the ordinal adaptations yield significantly better results on those metrics, showing that ignoring label order wastes information present in many time series tasks. A sympathetic reader would care because many real classification problems involve naturally ordered categories such as severity levels or quality grades, and the work provides concrete evidence that standard TSC pipelines can be modified to use that structure.

Core claim

Ordinal adaptations of convolutional and deep learning TSC techniques achieve significantly better performance than their nominal counterparts on ordinal evaluation metrics across 29 selected time series problems drawn from two archives.

What carries the argument

Adaptations of convolutional and deep learning TSC models that incorporate ordinal label structure, typically through modified loss functions or output layers that respect the ordering of classes.

If this is right

  • Nominal TSC pipelines can be upgraded for ordinal problems by changing only the loss or output handling.
  • Ordinal metrics should become standard when evaluating classifiers on ordered time series labels.
  • Existing deep learning TSC architectures already contain the capacity to model label order once the training objective is adjusted.
  • The performance gap demonstrates that label ordering supplies usable signal beyond what the time series values alone provide.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Similar ordinal adaptations could be tested on non-deep TSC methods such as shapelets or interval features to check whether the benefit is architecture-specific.
  • Domains like medical monitoring or industrial quality control, where time series often carry severity grades, become immediate candidates for these methods.
  • The benchmark sets a baseline that future TSOC work can use to measure progress without re-selecting datasets.

Load-bearing premise

The 29 chosen ordinal time series problems are representative of the broader class of such tasks and the method adaptations correctly exploit ordering without introducing new biases.

What would settle it

Running the same ordinal and nominal methods on a fresh collection of time series problems whose labels have a clear order and measuring whether the ordinal versions lose their advantage on ordinal metrics.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2306.10084 by Anthony Bagnall, C\'esar Herv\'as-Mart\'inez, David Guijo-Rubio, Pedro Antonio Guti\'errez, Rafael Ayll\'on-Gavil\'an.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Example of time series extracted from the [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p002_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: IM architecture. Two pipelines are applied in par [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: O-IN architecture, two blocks of three IMs with [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Comparison between the TSOC methodologies [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p009_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Boxplot of relative MAEs. O-ROCKET O-MiniROCKET O-MultiROCKET O-ResNet O-InceptionTime O-LITETime O-CNN HC2 LogReg XGB TSF Methods 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 MAE [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_7.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Run time in milliseconds (log scale average over [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_6.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Multi-Comparison Matrix between ordinal methodologies in MAE. In each cell, three values are provided: 1) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_9.png] view at source ↗
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Time Series Classification (TSC) covers the supervised learning problem where input data is provided in the form of series of values observed through repeated measurements over time, and whose objective is to predict the category to which they belong. When the class values are ordinal, classifiers that take this into account can perform better than nominal classifiers. Time Series Ordinal Classification (TSOC) is the field covering this gap, yet unexplored in the literature. There are a wide range of time series problems showing an ordered label structure, and TSC techniques that ignore the order relationship discard useful information. Hence, this paper presents a first benchmarking of TSOC methodologies, exploiting the ordering of the target labels to boost the performance of current TSC state-of-the-art. Both convolutional- and deep learning-based methodologies (among the best performing alternatives for nominal TSC) are adapted for TSOC. For the experiments, a selection of 29 ordinal problems from two well-known archives has been made. In this way, this paper contributes to the establishment of the state-of-the-art in TSOC. The results obtained by ordinal versions are found to be significantly better than current nominal TSC techniques in terms of ordinal performance metrics, outlining the importance of considering the ordering of the labels when dealing with this kind of problems.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper claims to introduce Time Series Ordinal Classification (TSOC) as an unexplored extension of TSC, adapt convolutional and deep learning methods to exploit ordinal label structure, select 29 ordinal problems from two archives, and demonstrate that the ordinal adaptations yield statistically significant improvements over nominal TSC baselines on ordinal performance metrics.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold after full validation, the work would establish the first benchmark for TSOC and provide evidence that incorporating label order improves performance on ordered time series tasks. It receives credit for targeting an overlooked problem and adapting existing SOTA TSC architectures rather than proposing entirely new ones.

major comments (3)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that ordinal versions are 'significantly better' on ordinal metrics supplies no information on which ordinal metrics were used, which statistical tests were applied, or whether any correction for multiple comparisons was performed across methods and datasets.
  2. [Problem selection] Problem selection paragraph: the statement that 'a selection of 29 ordinal problems from two well-known archives has been made' provides no selection criteria, class distribution statistics, or justification that these problems are representative of the broader TSOC task space.
  3. [Method adaptations] Method description: the adaptations of CNN/DL techniques for ordinal structure are described only at a high level; the manuscript must specify exactly how ordinal information is injected (loss function, output layer encoding, or post-processing) to support the claim that gains arise from ordinal modeling rather than hyperparameter or architectural differences.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive comments. We address each major point below and will incorporate the suggested clarifications in the revised manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the claim that ordinal versions are 'significantly better' on ordinal metrics supplies no information on which ordinal metrics were used, which statistical tests were applied, or whether any correction for multiple comparisons was performed across methods and datasets.

    Authors: We agree the abstract is insufficiently precise. The revised abstract will explicitly name the ordinal metrics (MAE and AMAE), state that statistical significance was assessed via the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, and note that no additional multiple-comparison correction was applied beyond the pairwise ordinal-vs-nominal comparisons per dataset, consistent with standard TSC benchmarking practice. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Problem selection] Problem selection paragraph: the statement that 'a selection of 29 ordinal problems from two well-known archives has been made' provides no selection criteria, class distribution statistics, or justification that these problems are representative of the broader TSOC task space.

    Authors: The observation is correct. We will expand the relevant section to document the selection criteria (datasets from UCR/UEA archives possessing naturally ordered class labels with three or more categories), include a table of class distributions, and justify representativeness by domain coverage (medical, industrial, environmental). revision: yes

  3. Referee: [Method adaptations] Method description: the adaptations of CNN/DL techniques for ordinal structure are described only at a high level; the manuscript must specify exactly how ordinal information is injected (loss function, output layer encoding, or post-processing) to support the claim that gains arise from ordinal modeling rather than hyperparameter or architectural differences.

    Authors: We accept that greater specificity is required. The revised methods section will detail, for each technique, the exact injection mechanism (e.g., replacement of cross-entropy with an ordinal regression loss, use of a single-output threshold model instead of softmax, or post-hoc ordering enforcement) so that performance differences can be attributed to ordinal modeling. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: purely empirical benchmarking study

full rationale

The paper performs an empirical comparison by adapting convolutional and deep learning TSC methods to ordinal settings and evaluating them on 29 problems selected from existing archives. No derivations, equations, fitted parameters presented as predictions, or self-citation chains appear in the central claims. The headline result rests on experimental outcomes rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. This matches the default case of a self-contained empirical study.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 0 axioms · 0 invented entities

Empirical benchmarking study with no mathematical derivations. Relies on standard supervised learning assumptions such as representative sampling from the chosen archives and that ordinal metrics correctly capture the desired ordering property.

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