arXiv Machine Learning

Structure-Aware Graph Abstention for Reliable Selective Forecasting

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 9

CARE: A Lightweight Plug-in Gated Correction and Uncertainty-aware Module for Long-term Time Series Forecasting

CARE is a lightweight plug‑in module that can be added to any deterministic time‑series forecaster. It resamples historical data to align with the forecast horizon, learns residual corrections, and applies scale‑aware bounded updates controlled by per‑coordinate sigmoid risk gates. The module is trained with a multi‑objective loss to improve accuracy, track residuals, align risk, and anchor the base model, and it demonstrates accuracy gains on eight benchmarks with minimal extra parameters or latency.

By Guo Cheng, Changlong Lv, Jingyi Hou
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21

Differentiable latent structure discovery for interpretable forecasting in clinical time series

arXiv:2604. 27967v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Background: We introduce StructGP, a continuous-time multi-task Gaussian process that couples process convolutions with differentiable structure learning to uncover a sparse, ordered directed acyclic graph (DAG) of inter-variable dependencies while preserving principled uncertainty.

By Ivan Lerner, Jean Feydy, Alexandre Kalimouttou, Anita Burgun, Francis Bach
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 18

CoRe: Coherence and Relational Alignment for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

CoRe is a model‑agnostic learning objective for direct multivariate time‑series forecasting that replaces pointwise errors with two output‑space constraints: a frequency coherence loss aligning predicted and target spectra, and a low‑rank relational graph loss matching pairwise differences in a PCA subspace. The objective introduces no trainable parameters and can be applied to existing forecasting backbones by changing only the loss. Experiments on standard benchmarks show that CoRe improves strong baselines, compares favorably with recent forecasting objectives, and remains effective across different backbones, datasets, and hyperparameter settings.

By Xiaoyu Lin, Huiran Duan, Yining Liu, Zhixiang Wu, Chu Lin, Lin Lu
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 24

When Does Forecasting Reveal Temporal Structure? A Stability Analysis of Time-Series Structural Selection

The paper investigates when forecasting accuracy can reliably reveal the underlying temporal structure of a time series. It shows that a small forecast margin does not automatically mean structural ambiguity and introduces a stability-based measure that assesses how well different temporal mechanisms can be distinguished given uncertainty in the selection objective. Experiments demonstrate that this stability metric better predicts when forecast-only structural selection succeeds or fails compared to relying solely on forecast margin.

By Qipeng Qian, Yuntao Qian
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

PACE: Propagation-Aware Collaborative Correction for One-Shot Personalized Federated Graph Learning

PACE introduces a propagation‑aware collaborative correction for one‑shot personalized federated graph learning. Each client sends a rank‑r update and a diagonal sketch of message moments, allowing the server to construct a correction that anchors to the receiver’s local model. A convex negative‑log‑likelihood calibration selects a single coefficient to blend local and external logits, improving accuracy and weighted‑F1 on most datasets while preserving local predictions when the correction is unhelpful.

By Ruizhe Huang, Chengran Li, Xiaochuan Shi