arXiv AI By Mingtao Zhang, Guoli Yang, Zhanxing Zhu, Mengzhu Wang, Xiaoying Bai

Efficient Linear Attention for Multivariate Time Series Modeling via Entropy Calibration

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arXiv AI
Oct 12

Not All Dimensions Are Equal: Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization with Grouped Quadratic Kernels

The paper introduces Outlier-Aware Attention Linearization (OAL), a method that improves linearized softmax attention by explicitly accounting for a few outlier dimensions that disproportionately affect query-key dot products. OAL builds on a second-order Taylor approximation, uses a Hadamard-product formulation to expose dimension-specific contributions, and groups dimensions with similar scales to share coefficients while treating outliers separately. Experiments on Qwen2.5-0.5B show an 8.9% reduction in frozen-attention output MSE, and fine-tuning with LoRA lowers WikiText-103 perplexity from 31.71 to 27.50 while boosting performance on PIQA, HellaSwag, and ARC-E.

By Weiqi Sun, Qianyue Wu, Wenjia Wang, Tianyang Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
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GateTS: Versatile and Efficient Forecasting via Attention-Inspired routed Mixture-of-Experts

GateTS introduces a streamlined univariate forecasting model that merges sparse Mixture-of-Experts computation with an attention-inspired gating mechanism, eliminating the need for auxiliary load‑balancing losses. The architecture achieves superior predictive accuracy across both short‑ and long‑term horizons, including intermittent signals, while using far fewer parameters than leading transformer models such as PatchTST. Empirical tests on diverse datasets show GateTS is computationally more efficient than LSTM, enabling cost‑effective inference for real‑world time‑series applications.

By Kyrylo Yemets, Mykola Lukashchuk, Ivan Izonin