Title
MuVAN: A Multi-view Attention Network for Multivariate Temporal Data
Abstract
Recent advances in attention networks have gained enormous interest in time series data mining. Various attention mechanisms are proposed to soft-select relevant timestamps from temporal data by assigning learnable attention scores. However, many real-world tasks involve complex multivariate time series that continuously measure target from multiple views. Different views may provide information of different levels of quality varied over time, and thus should be assigned with different attention scores as well. Unfortunately, the existing attention-based architectures cannot be directly used to jointly learn the attention scores in both time and view domains, due to the data structure complexity. Towards this end, we propose a novel multi-view attention network, namely MuVAN, to learn fine-grained attentional representations from multivariate temporal data. MuVAN is a unified deep learning model that can jointly calculate the two-dimensional attention scores to estimate the quality of information contributed by each view within different timestamps. By constructing a hybrid focus procedure, we are able to bring more diversity to attention, in order to fully utilize the multi-view information. To evaluate the performance of our model, we carry out experiments on three real-world benchmark datasets. Experimental results show that the proposed MuVAN model outperforms the state-of-the-art deep representation approaches in different real-world tasks. Analytical results through a case study demonstrate that MuVAN can discover discriminative and meaningful attention scores across views over time, which improves the feature representation of multivariate temporal data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICDM.2018.00087
2018 IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM)
Keywords
Field
DocType
attention mechanism, representation learning, multivariate temporal data, deep learning
Data mining,Data structure,Data modeling,Task analysis,Computer science,Temporal database,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Artificial neural network,Discriminative model,Machine learning,Information quality
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-4786
978-1-5386-9160-1
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
19
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ye Yuan143861.04
Guangxu Xun2194.65
Fenglong Ma337433.08
Yaqing Wang4959.71
Nan Du550352.49
Kebin Jia6224.05
lu su7111866.61
Aidong Zhang82970405.63