KnowIt: Deep Time Series Modeling and Interpretation
This toolkit addresses the need for accessible and interpretable deep learning tools in time series analysis, though it appears incremental as a software framework rather than a novel method.
The authors introduced KnowIt, a flexible Python framework for building and interpreting deep time series models, designed to decouple dataset definitions, neural network architectures, and interpretability techniques for ease of use and customization.
KnowIt (Knowledge discovery in time series data) is a flexible framework for building deep time series models and interpreting them. It is implemented as a Python toolkit, with source code and documentation available from https://must-deep-learning.github.io/KnowIt. It imposes minimal assumptions about task specifications and decouples the definition of dataset, deep neural network architecture, and interpretability technique through well defined interfaces. This ensures the ease of importing new datasets, custom architectures, and the definition of different interpretability paradigms while maintaining on-the-fly modeling and interpretation of different aspects of a user's own time series data. KnowIt aims to provide an environment where users can perform knowledge discovery on their own complex time series data through building powerful deep learning models and explaining their behavior. With ongoing development, collaboration and application our goal is to make this a platform to progress this underexplored field and produce a trusted tool for deep time series modeling.