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Q1: What other ways to generate fake sequences may be suitable for this problem? A1: That is a good question. GAN to generate some more difficult fake sequences to further improve the ability of the encoder. Q1: Comparison with other state-of-the-art deep clustering methods which are not designed for time-series. A1: Following your suggestion, we compare our method with two state-of-the-art deep clustering methods (i.e., DEC (Xie et al., Table 1: Comparisons on 36 time series datasets (The No. of datasets is consistent with the one in Table 2 in main text)Dataset DEC(RI) IDEC(RI) DTCR(RI) DTCR(NMI) DTCR(ACC) Dataset DEC(RI) IDEC(RI) DTCR(RI) DTCR(NMI) DTCR(ACC)1 0.5817 0.6210 0.6868(0.0026)