arXiv Machine Learning

Rollcast: Proper-Score Gated Rolling Anchors for Adaptive Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 19

Dynamic Regime-Aware Conformal Calibration for Reliable Economic Forecast Intervals under Multiple Distribution Shifts

Dynamic Regime-Aware Conformal Prediction (DRACP) is a new method that blends density‑ratio estimation, localized kernel weighting, and probabilistic regime‑aware weighting with a self‑tuning online significance controller to produce reliable prediction intervals under multiple distribution shifts. The authors prove finite‑sample validity with oracle weights, provide a coverage‑gap bound for estimated weights, and give deterministic or regret guarantees for the online controller. In experiments on 48 real forecasting series—including euro‑area inflation, US macroeconomic and energy indicators, and daily financial data—DRACP achieves the most reliable calibration, maintaining coverage close to the nominal 0.90 and never falling below 0.80, while other methods achieve narrower intervals but with higher under‑coverage. whyItMatters":"DRACP offers a principled trade‑off between calibration and efficiency, ensuring that prediction intervals meet coverage standards even when economic data exhibit covariate shift, concept drift, and latent regimes."

By Bogdan Oancea
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

Generalized Gibbs Ensemble Weighting for Forecast Combination

The paper introduces Generalized Gibbs Ensemble Weighting (GGEW), a probabilistic framework that assigns weights to forecasting models using a Gibbs-style exponential transformation of normalized predictive loss. GGEW extends basic weighting through numerical stabilization, diversity-aware score corrections, and online hyperparameter adaptation, yielding variants such as Stable Gibbs weighting, Directional Gibbs-NCL, and Symmetric Gibbs-NCL. The authors evaluate GGEW on M4 competition submissions and real-world datasets (Monash Traffic, Electricity, Solar), finding that Gibbs-style adaptive weighting is competitive across various settings, though performance varies by dataset, horizon, and deployment protocol.

By Prasen R. Nuthanakaluva, Nava K. Gaddam
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Scalable estimation of VARMA models

arXiv:2608. 06340v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vector autoregressive moving-average (VARMA) models have long been considered impractical beyond moderate dimensions: the likelihood is non-convex, the parametrization is identified only up to equivalence, and every evaluation costs a pass over the entire series.

By Daniel Paulin, Victor Elvira
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 2

TRIE: An Evaluation Framework for Stochastic PDE Surrogates

arXiv:2607. 00196v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Many scientific systems exhibit uncertainty from stochastic forcing, unresolved degrees of freedom, or imperfect observations, making reliable surrogate forecasting fundamentally distributional rather than pointwise.

By Bharat Srikishan, Javier E. Santos, Nikhil Muralidhar, Charles D. Young
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 27

Forecasting Multiple Observables with SCROLL: Score-Trained Uncertainty for Stochastic Dynamics

The paper introduces SCROLL, a method for forecasting multiple observables in stochastic dynamical systems by composing each observable’s likelihood into per‑task free‑routed last‑layer beliefs on a shared backbone. This approach learns unit‑dependent loss scaling directly from data, enabling accurate predictive variance estimation without separate tuning. Experiments on the Ornstein–Uhlenbeck process, stochastic Lorenz‑63, and real air‑quality data show that SCROLL recovers analytic kernels, achieves superior negative log‑likelihood on state and regime tasks, and maintains calibration while reducing hyper‑parameter search costs.

By Pavel Prochazka