Universal Multi-Modal Traceformer: Integrating Heterogeneous Context for Process Event Prediction

2026-09-21

AI Summary

本文提出Universal Multi-Modal Traceformer，通过整合多模态上下文信息以改进事件序列预测，采用Transformer架构处理不同类型特征。

Abstract

Event logs arise in a wide range of real-world processes, capturing not only event activities and timestamps but also multi-modal contextual information. Existing event-sequence models, including many temporal point process approaches, primarily model event activities and timestamps while overlooking heterogeneous context, such as numerical measurements, categorical attributes, textual descriptions, and metadata associated with individual events and entire traces. In this paper, we propose Universal Multi-Modal Traceformer (UMT), a unified framework for incorporating heterogeneous process context into next-event prediction. Built on a Transformer backbone, UMT introduces a universal feature encoder that maps diverse feature types into a shared representation space and handles contextual information at both the event and trace levels. UMT further develops a per-event Perceiver module that dynamically weights contextual features and adaptively integrates them into event-token representations. To accommodate the heavy-tailed and potentially multi-modal distribution of inter-arrival times, UMT represents each interval at multiple temporal scales and jointly predicts the corresponding scale-specific quantities. Experiments on 13 real-world event logs show that UMT improves both next-event activity and time prediction over existing approaches.

Problem

• event logs
• heterogeneous context
• next-event prediction
• multi-modal information

Innovation

• Universal Feature Encoder
• Perceiver Module
• Multi-Scale Time Representation