Time is an important feature in many applications involving events that occur synchronously and/or asynchronously. To effectively consume time information, recent studies have focused on designing new architectures. In this paper, we take an orthogonal but complementary approach by providing a model-agnostic vector representation for time, called Time2Vec, that can be easily imported into many existing and future architectures and improve their performances. We show on a range of models and problems that replacing the notion of time with its Time2Vec representation improves the performance of the final model.
翻译:时间是涉及同步和(或)不同步发生事件的许多应用中的一个重要特征。为了有效地利用时间信息,最近的研究侧重于设计新的结构。在本文件中,我们采取一个正对但互补的方法,即提供一种叫做Time2Vec(Time2Vec)的时间模型 -- -- 不可知的矢量代表,可以很容易地输入到许多现有和未来的结构中,并改进其性能。我们展示了一系列模式和问题,用时间2Vec(Time2Vec)代表来取代时间概念,改善了最终模式的性能。