Discretizing Continuous Time Series for Imputation with Masked Diffusion Training
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arXiv:2608.19119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series imputation is a crucial area for reliable time series analysis, yet it remains challenging due to the complex temporal dynamics and noise of real-world data. Existing approaches, however, exhibit two limitations: missing and observed values are embedded within the same representation space without explicit structural separation, and continuous diffusion-based methods are trained to predict added noise rather than the original signal. To address these, we propose the Masked Diffusion Time-series Imputation Model (MDTIM), which levera
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- arXiv:2608.19119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series imputation is a crucial area for reliable time series analysis, yet it remains challenging due to the complex temporal dynamics and noise of real-world data.
- Existing approaches, however, exhibit two limitations: missing and observed values are embedded within the same representation space without explicit structural separation, and continuous diffusion-based methods are trained to predict added noise rather than the original signal.
- To address these, we propose the Masked Diffusion Time-series Imputation Model (MDTIM), which levera
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