Learning Recursive Multi-Scale Representations for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

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Autori principali: Li, Boyuan, Liu, Zhen, Luo, Yicheng, Ma, Qianli
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author Li, Boyuan
Liu, Zhen
Luo, Yicheng
Ma, Qianli
author_facet Li, Boyuan
Liu, Zhen
Luo, Yicheng
Ma, Qianli
contents Irregular Multivariate Time Series (IMTS) are characterized by uneven intervals between consecutive timestamps, which carry sampling pattern information valuable and informative for learning temporal and variable dependencies. In addition, IMTS often exhibit diverse dependencies across multiple time scales. However, many existing multi-scale IMTS methods use resampling to obtain the coarse series, which can alter the original timestamps and disrupt the sampling pattern information. To address the challenge, we propose ReIMTS, a Recursive multi-scale modeling approach for Irregular Multivariate Time Series forecasting. Instead of resampling, ReIMTS keeps timestamps unchanged and recursively splits each sample into subsamples with progressively shorter time periods. Based on the original sampling timestamps in these long-to-short subsamples, an irregularity-aware representation fusion mechanism is proposed to capture global-to-local dependencies for accurate forecasting. Extensive experiments demonstrate an average performance improvement of 27.1\% in the forecasting task across different models and real-world datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/Ladbaby/PyOmniTS.
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spellingShingle Learning Recursive Multi-Scale Representations for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Li, Boyuan
Liu, Zhen
Luo, Yicheng
Ma, Qianli
Machine Learning
Irregular Multivariate Time Series (IMTS) are characterized by uneven intervals between consecutive timestamps, which carry sampling pattern information valuable and informative for learning temporal and variable dependencies. In addition, IMTS often exhibit diverse dependencies across multiple time scales. However, many existing multi-scale IMTS methods use resampling to obtain the coarse series, which can alter the original timestamps and disrupt the sampling pattern information. To address the challenge, we propose ReIMTS, a Recursive multi-scale modeling approach for Irregular Multivariate Time Series forecasting. Instead of resampling, ReIMTS keeps timestamps unchanged and recursively splits each sample into subsamples with progressively shorter time periods. Based on the original sampling timestamps in these long-to-short subsamples, an irregularity-aware representation fusion mechanism is proposed to capture global-to-local dependencies for accurate forecasting. Extensive experiments demonstrate an average performance improvement of 27.1\% in the forecasting task across different models and real-world datasets. Our code is available at https://github.com/Ladbaby/PyOmniTS.
title Learning Recursive Multi-Scale Representations for Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.21498