When Does Context Routing Help? A Systematic Study of Multi-Modal Fusion in Time Series Forecasting
Read the original on arXiv Machine Learning →The paper investigates when auxiliary context can genuinely improve multi‑modal time series forecasting. It identifies two necessary dataset‑level conditions: the target must not be dominated by a last‑value shortcut (low autocorrelation) and the context must provide additional information beyond history (non‑zero conditional mutual information). Experiments on a large mixture‑of‑experts model and several fusion mechanisms show that only when both conditions hold does context routing yield a substantial reduction in mean‑squared error; otherwise its contribution collapses to a capacity floor.
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