Enhancing Time Series Forecasting through Selective Representation Spaces: A Patch Perspective

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Main Authors: Wu, Xingjian, Qiu, Xiangfei, Cheng, Hanyin, Li, Zhengyu, Hu, Jilin, Guo, Chenjuan, Yang, Bin
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author Wu, Xingjian
Qiu, Xiangfei
Cheng, Hanyin
Li, Zhengyu
Hu, Jilin
Guo, Chenjuan
Yang, Bin
author_facet Wu, Xingjian
Qiu, Xiangfei
Cheng, Hanyin
Li, Zhengyu
Hu, Jilin
Guo, Chenjuan
Yang, Bin
contents Time Series Forecasting has made significant progress with the help of Patching technique, which partitions time series into multiple patches to effectively retain contextual semantic information into a representation space beneficial for modeling long-term dependencies. However, conventional patching partitions a time series into adjacent patches, which causes a fixed representation space, thus resulting in insufficiently expressful representations. In this paper, we pioneer the exploration of constructing a selective representation space to flexibly include the most informative patches for forecasting. Specifically, we propose the Selective Representation Space (SRS) module, which utilizes the learnable Selective Patching and Dynamic Reassembly techniques to adaptively select and shuffle the patches from the contextual time series, aiming at fully exploiting the information of contextual time series to enhance the forecasting performance of patch-based models. To demonstrate the effectiveness of SRS module, we propose a simple yet effective SRSNet consisting of SRS and an MLP head, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world datasets from multiple domains. Furthermore, as a novel plug-and-play module, SRS can also enhance the performance of existing patch-based models. The resources are available at https://github.com/decisionintelligence/SRSNet.
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spellingShingle Enhancing Time Series Forecasting through Selective Representation Spaces: A Patch Perspective
Wu, Xingjian
Qiu, Xiangfei
Cheng, Hanyin
Li, Zhengyu
Hu, Jilin
Guo, Chenjuan
Yang, Bin
Machine Learning
Time Series Forecasting has made significant progress with the help of Patching technique, which partitions time series into multiple patches to effectively retain contextual semantic information into a representation space beneficial for modeling long-term dependencies. However, conventional patching partitions a time series into adjacent patches, which causes a fixed representation space, thus resulting in insufficiently expressful representations. In this paper, we pioneer the exploration of constructing a selective representation space to flexibly include the most informative patches for forecasting. Specifically, we propose the Selective Representation Space (SRS) module, which utilizes the learnable Selective Patching and Dynamic Reassembly techniques to adaptively select and shuffle the patches from the contextual time series, aiming at fully exploiting the information of contextual time series to enhance the forecasting performance of patch-based models. To demonstrate the effectiveness of SRS module, we propose a simple yet effective SRSNet consisting of SRS and an MLP head, which achieves state-of-the-art performance on real-world datasets from multiple domains. Furthermore, as a novel plug-and-play module, SRS can also enhance the performance of existing patch-based models. The resources are available at https://github.com/decisionintelligence/SRSNet.
title Enhancing Time Series Forecasting through Selective Representation Spaces: A Patch Perspective
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14510