Abstract
The goal of change point detection (CPD) is to find abrupt changes in the underlying state of a time series. Currently, CPD is typically tackled using fully supervised or completely unsupervised approaches. Supervised methods exploit labels to find change points that are as accurate as possible with respect to these labels, but have the drawback that annotating the data is a time-consuming task. In contrast, unsupervised methods avoid the need for labels by making assumptions about how changes in the underlying statistics of the data correlate with changes in a time series’ state. However, these assumptions may be incorrect and hence lead to identifying different change points than a user would annotate. In this paper, we propose an approach in between these two extremes and present AL-CPD, an algorithm that combines active and semi-supervised learning to tackle CPD. AL-CPD asks directed queries to obtain labels from the user and uses them to eliminate incorrectly detected change points and to search for new change points. Using an empirical evaluation on both synthetic and real-world datasets, we show that our algorithm finds more accurate change points compared to existing change point detection methods.
A. De Brabandere and Z. Cao—Equal contribution.
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Because the label propagation algorithm performs poorly when given high-dimensional data, we first reduce the dimensionality of the feature space using a principal component analysis (PCA) transformation (setting the number of components such that the explained variance is at least 0.9) and standardise the PCA components.
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This work is supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) under TBM grant number T004716N, by the Flemish government under the “Onderzoeksprogramma Artificiële Intelligentie (AI) Vlaanderen” programme, and by VLAIO ICON-AI CONSCIOUS (HBC.2020.2795).
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De Brabandere, A., Cao, Z., De Vos, M., Bertrand, A., Davis, J. (2022). Semi-supervised Change Point Detection Using Active Learning. In: Pascal, P., Ienco, D. (eds) Discovery Science. DS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13601. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18840-4_6
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