RDDMPI introduces a residual denoising diffusion model for multivariate time series imputation. By decomposing the missing signal into a baseline reconstruction and a residual uncertainty component, the method conditions the diffusion process on both the completed signal and its latent representation, using a reliability-aware mechanism to balance baseline influence. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that this approach improves reconstruction accuracy and uncertainty quantification compared to prior diffusion-based methods.
By Ramiro Valdes Jara, David Chapman, Adam Meyers
The paper introduces the Masked Diffusion Time-series Imputation Model (MDTIM), which uses a masked diffusion training paradigm to directly predict original values for time series imputation. It separates missing and observed data via a MASK token and employs Stochastic Discretization to convert continuous values into ordinal-aware tokens, preserving temporal dynamics. Experiments on multiple benchmarks show that MDTIM outperforms existing deterministic and generative baselines in robustness and scalability across various missing data scenarios.
By Dongbin Kim, Seungyun Lee, Geonwoo Shin, Jaewook Lee
arXiv:2512. 15116v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multivariate time series imputation is fundamental in applications such as healthcare, traffic forecasting, and biological modeling, where sensor failures and irregular sampling lead to pervasive missing values.
By Runze Li, Hanchen Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Binghao Li, Yu Zhang, Xuemin Lin, Ying Zhang
arXiv:2609.37632v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Time series imputation has progressed from statistical and deep learning approaches to diffusion-based models, which have shown strong recent perform...
By Fariza Rashid, Duc Van Le, Rahat Masood, Gustavo Batista, Aruna Seneviratne, Suranga Seneviratne
arXiv:2604. 22901v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models achieve remarkable success in time series generation.
By Dong Liu, Yanxuan Yu, Ying Nian Wu
arXiv:2607. 07640v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deep learning has significantly advanced time series imputation, yet most existing architectures primarily rely on localized temporal context within the corrupted input sequence.
By Xuan-Thong Truong, Trung-Kien Le, Tung Kieu, Thi-Thu Nguyen, Nhat-Hai Nguyen
arXiv:2605. 19805v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Irregular multivariate time series impose a trade-off for long-horizon forecasting: discrete methods can distort temporal structure via re-gridding, while continuous-time models often require sequential solvers prone to drift.
By Zinuo You, Jin Zheng, John Cartlidge
arXiv:2607. 20545v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion models have become competitive generators for time series, but their practical use is limited by the large number of sequential denoising steps required at inference time.
By Du Yin, Estrid He, Juli\'an Jer\'onimo Ba\~nuelos, Yang Yang, Feng Hu, Yuchen Luo, Hao Xue, Stephan Sigg, Flora Salim
arXiv:2602. 17706v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion models learn data distributions indirectly through denoising, making the difficulty of generative modeling closely tied to the dependency structure of data.
By Rongyao Cai, Yuxi Wan, Kexin Zhang, Ming Jin, Zhiqiang Ge, Qingsong Wen, Yong Liu
arXiv:2606. 15172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthesizing realistic time series with generative models has wide-ranging applications in real-world scenarios.
By Zihao Yao, Qi Zheng, Jiankai Zuo, Yaying Zhang
arXiv:2607. 01774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently emerged as a promising alternative to autoregressive models.
By Maximo Rulli (Sapienza University of Rome), Thomas Fontanari (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Petruzzi (Sapienza University of Rome), Federico Alvetreti (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgio Strano (Sapienza University of Rome), Donato Crisostomi (Sapienza University of Rome), Giorgos Nikolaou (EPFL), Tommaso Mencattini (EPFL), Andrea Santilli (Independent researcher), Emanuele Rodol\`a (Sapienza University of Rome), Simone Scardapane (Sapienza University of Rome), Alessio Devoto (Independent researcher)
arXiv:2606. 06328v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In healthcare, multimodal time series tasks often operate on incomplete observations in practice, for example when ECG segments are lost because electrodes detach or an entire respiratory channel is unavailable during overnight monitoring.
By Ziwen Kan, Wugeng Zheng, Tianlong Chen, Song Wang