arXiv:2606. 04135v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series forecasting relies on historical patterns, but real-world series often exhibit non-stationarity and regime shifts that challenge fully parametric forecasters.
By Shiqiao Zhou, Holger Sch\"oner, Zipeng Wu, Edouard Fouch\'e, IAG Wilson, Shuo Wang
The paper investigates which historical examples are most useful for time‑series forecasting by defining predictive relevance as the expected future utility conditioned on inference‑time information. It introduces a two‑stage approach: a normalized‑pattern retriever generates a coarse candidate set, and a lightweight MLP reranks these candidates using future‑supervised relevance while keeping inference strictly past‑only. Experiments on six benchmarks show that this reranker improves pattern retrieval and outperforms a matched‑protocol baseline, revealing that historical relevance is structured, domain‑dependent, and not governed by a single universal retrieval rule.
By Yong-Hoon Choi, Kwang-Hyun Park, Youngjin Cho
arXiv:2603. 14709v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enhances zero-shot time series (TS) forecasting by leveraging external knowledge bases, yet existing approaches overlook input-level relevance when fusing retrieved samples with the query.
By Seunghan Lee, Jaehoon Lee, Jun Seo, Sungdong Yoo, Minjae Kim, Tae Yoon Lim, Dongwan Kang, Hwanil Choi, SoonYoung Lee, Wonbin Ahn
The paper introduces the problem of cross‑lingual loopholes in large language model (LLM) unlearning, where forgetting a fact in one language can leave it accessible in others. It presents a new 174‑language benchmark, the Cross‑Lingual Unlearning Tensor, and proposes COVER, a method that selects a subset of source languages to maximize unlearning coverage under a language budget. Experiments show COVER reduces residual knowledge by 7.8–27.3% compared to uniform selection and works on both synthetic and real low‑resource news data.
By Tyler Skow, Shravan Chaudhari, Rama Chellappa, Abhay Yadav
The paper introduces SAFE‑QE, a training‑free, retriever‑agnostic method for query expansion that mitigates hallucinated terms from large language models. It uses a subsequence‑association filter to score candidate terms based on their reproducibility across randomised query contexts, down‑weighting terms that lack corpus support. SAFE‑QE then selects a broad yet consistent set of expansions via constrained coverage maximisation, and defines a new metric, the Hallucinated Expansion Term Rate, to quantify faithfulness. The approach matches state‑of‑the‑art ranking performance while injecting far fewer unsupported terms on TREC and BEIR benchmarks.
By Amit Kumar Jaiswal, Sagar Uprety, Prayag Tiwari
arXiv:2608. 06223v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While deep learning models, particularly transformer-based architectures, have shown impressive performance in time series forecasting, the application of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) in this domain remains limited.
By Yixiong Xiao, Congxi Xiao, Jingbo Zhou