Dynamic shapelet selection with soft label for enhanced time series classification
摘要
Shapelet identification is crucial for time series classification as it provides discriminative features. Traditional methods often require exhaustive searches through a large pool of candidate subsequences, while learning-based approaches may lead to arbitrary, non-generalizable shapelets. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic shapelet selection with soft labels(DSSL) for enhanced time series classification. DSSL dynamically selects the most relevant noise-enhanced shapelets for time series classification using an importance transfer strategy where feature importance is generated by the classification model and temporal importance is computed by an RNN-based model. These are integrated as soft labels to guide sample-specific shapelet selection. Experimental results show that our method outperforms eight comparison methods in accuracy and statistical significance, while effectively selecting key time points as shapelet candidates.