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
Posted by Urs Köster, Software Engineer, Google Research Time series problems are ubiquitous, from forecasting weather and traffic patterns to understanding economic trends. Bayesian approaches start with an assumption about the data's patterns (prior probability), collecting evidence (e.
By Google AI
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By Vedant Bedi
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By Shuai Guo
arXiv:2608.24303v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Transitioning from bespoke time series models towards time series foundation models changes the relationship of model and application from one-to-one t...
By Mathis Jander, Wouter van Heeswijk, Martijn Mes
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