Task-aware conditional GAN with multi-objective loss for realistic and efficient industrial time series generation

Industrial time-series data generation is critical for addressing data scarcity, improving model robustness, and enabling data-driven decision-making in complex manufacturing systems. However, existing generative models often suffer from poor temporal fidelity, limited statistical consistency, and weak adaptability to downstream tasks. To address these challenges, we propose a novel conditional generative adversarial framework that integrates statistical feature augmentation, multi-scale temporal windows, and a composite loss function combining adversarial, L2, DTW, FID, and statistical constraints. This design ensures that the generated data preserves both local dynamics and global distributional properties. Our method introduces a systematic strategy for loss calibration and architecture tuning, which enhances generation stability without the need for complex temporal signature modeling. Experimental results on three real-world industrial datasets demonstrate that our model achieves superior generation fidelity and efficiency compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Specifically, our method achieves the lowest DTW score and the lowest MMD value, surpassing MTSS-GAN and TCGAN by 17.3% and 21.7%, respectively. In terms of training cost, our model achieves a training time reduction of 11.4% compared to MTSS-GAN. These results validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed framework in real-world time-series generation scenarios.

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Journal Of Big Data
Published
2025-08-21
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s40537-025-01266-8
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2
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Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
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Task-aware conditional GAN with multi-objective loss for realistic and efficient industrial time series generation

Yonghua Li, K. Lang
2 citations
Journal Of Big Data
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
2.97
article

Task-aware conditional GAN with multi-objective loss for realistic and efficient industrial time series generation

Yonghua Li, K. Lang
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Abstract

Industrial time-series data generation is critical for addressing data scarcity, improving model robustness, and enabling data-driven decision-making in complex manufacturing systems. However, existing generative models often suffer from poor temporal fidelity, limited statistical consistency, and weak adaptability to downstream tasks. To address these challenges, we propose a novel conditional generative adversarial framework that integrates statistical feature augmentation, multi-scale temporal windows, and a composite loss function combining adversarial, L2, DTW, FID, and statistical constraints. This design ensures that the generated data preserves both local dynamics and global distributional properties. Our method introduces a systematic strategy for loss calibration and architecture tuning, which enhances generation stability without the need for complex temporal signature modeling. Experimental results on three real-world industrial datasets demonstrate that our model achieves superior generation fidelity and efficiency compared to state-of-the-art baselines. Specifically, our method achieves the lowest DTW score and the lowest MMD value, surpassing MTSS-GAN and TCGAN by 17.3% and 21.7%, respectively. In terms of training cost, our model achieves a training time reduction of 11.4% compared to MTSS-GAN. These results validate the effectiveness and efficiency of our proposed framework in real-world time-series generation scenarios.

Journal Of Big DataVol. 12(1)
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (CN)
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Openalex Percentile: Top 8%
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
2.97
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