Time-Series Clustering: A Comprehensive Study of Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Methods

Summary: Benchmarks 84 time-series clustering methods across 10 classes and 128 datasets with rigorous statistics, reproducibility checks, and scalability analysis. Finds no significant improvement over decade-old k-Shape, challenging deep/foundation-model claims while identifying promising DL. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h3cff2924411cf9f8
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2025
Pagerank: 5.5991152e-05
Overall Rank: 7,096 | 52.31%
DOI: 10.14778/3749646.3749700
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Authors

1. John Paparrizos (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; Ohio State University)
2. Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy Bogireddy (Exelon Utilities)

BibTeX Citation

@article{paparrizos_vldb25,
        title = {{Time-Series Clustering: A Comprehensive Study of Data Mining, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning Methods}},
        author = {Paparrizos, John and Bogireddy, Sai Prasanna Teja Reddy},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '25},
        volume = {18},
        number = {11},
        pages = {4380--4395},
        doi = {10.14778/3749646.3749700},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/3749646.3749700},
        year = {2025}
}

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9,493	TSB-AutoAD: Towards Automated Solutions for Time-Series Anomaly Detection	2025	VLDB	5.168414e-05
9,494	Beyond Compression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Lossless Floating-Point Compression	2025	VLDB	5.168414e-05
10,480	HYDRA: A Multi-Level Hierarchy-Driven Approach for Robust Anomaly Detection in Time Series	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,494	MUFASA: Fast and Accurate Multivariate Time-Series Clustering	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
10,521	The Power of Anomaly Detection in Predictive Maintenance: [Experiments & Analysis]	2026	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-05
11,016	GALACTICA: An Interactive System for Local and Global Counterfactual Explanations for Time-series Clustering	2026	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
11,355	BURST: Rendering Clustering Techniques Suitable for Evolving Streams	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

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227	Robust and Fast Similarity Search for Moving Object Trajectories	2005	SIGMOD	0.00023924262
300	OPTICS: Ordering Points To Identify the Clustering Structure	1999	SIGMOD	0.00021800242
306	On The Marriage of Lp-norms and Edit Distance	2004	VLDB	0.00021565993
1,629	SAND: Streaming Subsequence Anomaly Detection	2021	VLDB	0.0001003165
1,731	Indexable PLA for Efficient Similarity Search	2007	VLDB	9.7633789e-05
1,974	Decomposed Bounded Floats for Fast Compression and Queries	2021	VLDB	9.2806652e-05
2,494	An Efficient and Accurate Method for Evaluating Time Series Similarity	2007	SIGMOD	8.385219e-05
3,513	Scalable, Variable-Length Similarity Search in Data Series: The ULISSE Approach	2018	VLDB	7.2404521e-05
3,728	Choose Wisely: An Extensive Evaluation of Model Selection for Anomaly Detection in Time Series	2023	VLDB	7.0667899e-05
4,184	YADING: Fast Clustering of Large-Scale Time Series Data	2015	VLDB	6.7508911e-05
5,260	Top-k Nearest Neighbor Search In Uncertain Data Series	2015	VLDB	6.2041665e-05
5,365	Rare Time Series Motif Discovery from Unbounded Streams	2015	VLDB	6.1588726e-05
5,477	Good to the Last Bit: Data-Driven Encoding with CodecDB	2021	SIGMOD	6.1152706e-05
7,647	A Structured Study of Multivariate Time-Series Distance Measures	2025	SIGMOD	5.4746904e-05
8,166	PIDS: Attribute Decomposition for Improved Compression and Query Performance in Columnar Storage	2020	VLDB	5.3846089e-05
8,209	FeatTS: Feature-based Time Series Clustering	2021	SIGMOD	5.3761875e-05
9,494	Beyond Compression: A Comprehensive Evaluation of Lossless Floating-Point Compression	2025	VLDB	5.168414e-05
9,633	Theseus: Navigating the Labyrinth of Time-Series Anomaly Detection	2022	VLDB	5.1459383e-05
9,916	SPARTAN: Data-Adaptive Symbolic Time-Series Approximation	2025	SIGMOD	5.1079647e-05
11,355	BURST: Rendering Clustering Techniques Suitable for Evolving Streams	2025	VLDB	4.9769913e-05
13,782	SAND in Action: Subsequence Anomaly Detection for Streams	2021	VLDB	-

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