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This research introduces DCRA, a novel training framework that leverages the forward diffusion process as a structured corruption scheduler to enhance robustness in noisy time-series data like EEG and ECG signals. By aligning representations across noise levels while preserving class-discriminative structure, the method improves seizure detection sensitivity without relying on independent perturbations. The approach is encoder-agnostic, offering a promising direction for integrating diffusion-based regularization into existing Transformer and state space model architectures for clinical applications.
DCRA: Diffusion-Conditioned Representation Alignment for Robust Time-Series Learning
arXiv:2609.11997v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Learning robust representations for time-series signals under noise and distribution shifts remains challenging, especially in clinical applications such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. We propose Diffusion-Conditioned Representation Alignment (DCRA), a training framework that repurposes the forward diffusion process as a structured corruption scheduler for representation learning. Different from conventional augmentation and consistency-based methods that rely on independently sampled perturbations, DCRA introduces a structured corruption trajectory via the diffusion forward process, which enables continuous and controlled representation evolution across noise levels. We introduce a feature-level consistency objective that aligns representations across noise levels while preserving class-discriminative structure. This mechanism promotes structure-preserving consistency, which enables smooth and semantically coherent feature trajectories in latent space. The proposed framework is encoder-agnostic and can be integrated with state space models and Transformer architectures. The seizure detection experiments on the CHB-MIT EEG dataset show that DCRA consistently improves performance under multiple noise conditions and achieves higher sensitivity at low false-positive rates. Analysis reveals that DCRA produces more balanced and structured representations compared to baseline and diffusion-only models. These findings highlight the benefit of combining structured corruption with representation alignment for robust time-series learning.
Abstract:Learning robust representations for time-series signals under noise and distribution shifts remains challenging, especially in clinical applications such as electroencephalogram (EEG) and electrocardiogram (ECG) analysis. We propose Diffusion-Conditioned Representation Alignment (DCRA), a training framework that repurposes the forward diffusion process as a structured corruption scheduler for representation learning. Different from conventional augmentation and consistency-based methods that rely on independently sampled perturbations, DCRA introduces a structured corruption trajectory via the diffusion forward process, which enables continuous and controlled representation evolution across noise levels. We introduce a feature-level consistency objective that aligns representations across noise levels while preserving class-discriminative structure. This mechanism promotes structure-preserving consistency, which enables smooth and semantically coherent feature trajectories in latent space. The proposed framework is encoder-agnostic and can be integrated with state space models and Transformer architectures. The seizure detection experiments on the CHB-MIT EEG dataset show that DCRA consistently improves performance under multiple noise conditions and achieves higher sensitivity at low false-positive rates. Analysis reveals that DCRA produces more balanced and structured representations compared to baseline and diffusion-only models. These findings highlight the benefit of combining structured corruption with representation alignment for robust time-series learning.
Machine Learning (cs.LG); Machine Learning (stat.ML)
arXiv:2609.11997 [cs.LG]
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