arXiv Machine Learning

Beyond Magnitude and Shape: A Direction-Aware Loss for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2608. 01857v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The direction of change --- whether a series will move up or down --- is often as important as its exact value in decisiondriven applications such as risk management and financial forecasting.

arXiv AI
Oct 9

ROAR: Retrieval Opportunity-Aware Refinement for Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting

ROAR is a Retrieval Opportunity-Aware Refinement framework designed for zero-shot time series forecasting. It enhances predictions by weighting queries according to base-forecast difficulty and the improvement potential of retrieved historical candidates, then learning a gate to control correction strength. The method jointly calibrates the forecasting module and gate, anchoring the final prediction to an initial refined output, and achieves the lowest average MSE across seven benchmarks compared to other methods.

By Jinjin Chi, Lei Feng, Yiming Wang, Lulu Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Chenyi Li, Ximing Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 3

Compositional Spectral Prompts for LLM-based Online Time Series Forecasting

The paper introduces CoSPOT, an online time series forecasting framework that uses a frozen pre‑trained large language model (LLM) as the core forecaster. CoSPOT adapts to evolving data by applying compositional spectral prompts—frequency‑domain basis prompts weighted by their amplitudes—allowing the model to represent unseen patterns as new combinations of learned bases while updating few parameters. Experiments on real‑world datasets show CoSPOT’s effectiveness in extended online phases and cross‑dataset scenarios with significant distribution shifts.

By Seungyoon Choi, Hyunchul Kim, Jae-Gil Lee, Chanyoung Park