FreDN: Spectral Disentanglement for Time Series Forecasting via Learnable Frequency Decomposition

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Main Authors: An, Zhongde, You, Jinhong, Li, Jiyanglin, Tang, Yiming, Li, Wen, Du, Heming, Du, Shouguo
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author An, Zhongde
You, Jinhong
Li, Jiyanglin
Tang, Yiming
Li, Wen
Du, Heming
Du, Shouguo
author_facet An, Zhongde
You, Jinhong
Li, Jiyanglin
Tang, Yiming
Li, Wen
Du, Heming
Du, Shouguo
contents Time series forecasting is essential in a wide range of real world applications. Recently, frequency-domain methods have attracted increasing interest for their ability to capture global dependencies. However, when applied to non-stationary time series, these methods encounter the $\textit{spectral entanglement}$ and the computational burden of complex-valued learning. The $\textit{spectral entanglement}$ refers to the overlap of trends, periodicities, and noise across the spectrum due to $\textit{spectral leakage}$ and the presence of non-stationarity. However, existing decompositions are not suited to resolving spectral entanglement. To address this, we propose the Frequency Decomposition Network (FreDN), which introduces a learnable Frequency Disentangler module to separate trend and periodic components directly in the frequency domain. Furthermore, we propose a theoretically supported ReIm Block to reduce the complexity of complex-valued operations while maintaining performance. We also re-examine the frequency-domain loss function and provide new theoretical insights into its effectiveness. Extensive experiments on seven long-term forecasting benchmarks demonstrate that FreDN outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 10\%. Furthermore, compared with standard complex-valued architectures, our real-imaginary shared-parameter design reduces the parameter count and computational cost by at least 50\%.
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spellingShingle FreDN: Spectral Disentanglement for Time Series Forecasting via Learnable Frequency Decomposition
An, Zhongde
You, Jinhong
Li, Jiyanglin
Tang, Yiming
Li, Wen
Du, Heming
Du, Shouguo
Machine Learning
Time series forecasting is essential in a wide range of real world applications. Recently, frequency-domain methods have attracted increasing interest for their ability to capture global dependencies. However, when applied to non-stationary time series, these methods encounter the $\textit{spectral entanglement}$ and the computational burden of complex-valued learning. The $\textit{spectral entanglement}$ refers to the overlap of trends, periodicities, and noise across the spectrum due to $\textit{spectral leakage}$ and the presence of non-stationarity. However, existing decompositions are not suited to resolving spectral entanglement. To address this, we propose the Frequency Decomposition Network (FreDN), which introduces a learnable Frequency Disentangler module to separate trend and periodic components directly in the frequency domain. Furthermore, we propose a theoretically supported ReIm Block to reduce the complexity of complex-valued operations while maintaining performance. We also re-examine the frequency-domain loss function and provide new theoretical insights into its effectiveness. Extensive experiments on seven long-term forecasting benchmarks demonstrate that FreDN outperforms state-of-the-art methods by up to 10\%. Furthermore, compared with standard complex-valued architectures, our real-imaginary shared-parameter design reduces the parameter count and computational cost by at least 50\%.
title FreDN: Spectral Disentanglement for Time Series Forecasting via Learnable Frequency Decomposition
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11817