Time Series Featurization via Topological Data Analysis

Abstract

We develop a novel algorithm for feature extraction in time series data by leveraging tools from topological data analysis. Our algorithm provides a simple, efficient way to successfully harness topological features of the attractor of the underlying dynamical system for an observed time series. The proposed methodology relies on the persistent landscapes and silhouette of the Rips complex obtained after a de-noising step based on principal components applied to a time-delayed embedding of a noisy, discrete time series sample. We analyze the stability properties of the proposed approach and show that the resulting TDA-based features are robust to sampling noise. Experiments on synthetic and real-world data demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach. We expect our method to provide new insights on feature extraction from granular, noisy time series data.

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