Jung-Hee Kim

Dr. Jung-Hee Kim


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1Year (2026-Present)

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10 September 2026 in Applied Sciences
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JLJuhyun Lyu
Juhyun Lyu
JKJung-Hee Kim
Jung-Hee Kim
SLSangmin Lee
Sangmin Lee
WAWonbin Ahn
Wonbin Ahn
WLWoohyung Lim
Woohyung Lim
NKNam Soo Kim
Nam Soo Kim
Time-series representation learning decomposes signals into interpretable factors such as trend and seasonality, and disentangled representation learning assigns these factors to distinct latent dimensions, enhancing interpretability and forecasting accuracy. However, existing methods achieve only statistical disentanglement: an intervention on one generative factor can still influence the latent assigned to the other, since unobserved common causes induce dependence between them. In time-series data, this entanglement is amplified by time-varying confounders, distorting causal effect estimates and degrading counterfactual prediction accuracy. We therefore propose CDTS2—Causal Downstreamer with Causally Disentangled Trend and Seasonality Time-Series Representations. CDTS2 combines two complementary mechanisms: (i) dedicated subnetworks separate trend and seasonality, regularized by the Hilbert–Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC) to suppress residual dependence between the two latents; and (ii) a causal discovery objective infers a summary causal graph over the input variables and regularizes the shared representation underlying both latents to incorporate causal dependency structure during training. To assess causal disentanglement, we evaluate CDTS2 on counterfactual prediction in medical and energy domains. Under severe confounding, CDTS2 reduces RMSE by 11.6% and 17.1% over the second-best baselines on the tumor-growth and CityLearn datasets, while preserving the best factual-forecast accuracy. CDTS2 also attains the highest Interventional Robustness Score (IRS) and Disentanglement–Completeness–Informativeness (DCI) metrics, indicating that it learns causally disentangled representations that remain robust under interventions.