Olivia: Harmonizing Time Series Foundation Models with Power Spectral Density

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Autores principales: Fei, Jingru, Yi, Kun, Wang, Alex Xing, Wen, Qingsong, Zhu, Xiangxiang, Fan, Wei
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author Fei, Jingru
Yi, Kun
Wang, Alex Xing
Wen, Qingsong
Zhu, Xiangxiang
Fan, Wei
author_facet Fei, Jingru
Yi, Kun
Wang, Alex Xing
Wen, Qingsong
Zhu, Xiangxiang
Fan, Wei
contents Time series foundation models rely on large-scale pretraining over diverse datasets across domains, yet their heterogeneity in temporal patterns could hinder the effectiveness of training and learning transferable time series representations. Inspired a fundamental concept, normalized power spectral density (PSD) in signal processing, we assume harmonizing datasets via PSDs in the spectral domain could reduce mismatches and enhance pretraining. We then go beyond the direct intractable minimization optimization and innovatively reformulate it as a principled harmonization approach. Specifically, we propose Harmonizer, a module that reshapes spectral structures and implicitly harmonizing PSDs across datasets, which theoretically corresponds to a shared reparameterization of second-order temporal correlations. Our theoretical analysis further reveals token interactions with Harmonizer can be efficiently mediated by a compact set of resonators, motivating a HarmonicAttention design that performs self-attention in a low-dimensional interaction space. Then, we propose Olivia, a novel time series foundation model built upon these harmonization mechanisms. Extensive experiments on two large-scale benchmarks (TSLib and GIFT-Eval) and extra 6 datasets from GluonTS, demonstrate Olivia consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance under zero-shot, few-shot, and full-shot forecasting scenarios. Our code is available at https://github.com/TSTS13/Olivia.
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spellingShingle Olivia: Harmonizing Time Series Foundation Models with Power Spectral Density
Fei, Jingru
Yi, Kun
Wang, Alex Xing
Wen, Qingsong
Zhu, Xiangxiang
Fan, Wei
Machine Learning
Time series foundation models rely on large-scale pretraining over diverse datasets across domains, yet their heterogeneity in temporal patterns could hinder the effectiveness of training and learning transferable time series representations. Inspired a fundamental concept, normalized power spectral density (PSD) in signal processing, we assume harmonizing datasets via PSDs in the spectral domain could reduce mismatches and enhance pretraining. We then go beyond the direct intractable minimization optimization and innovatively reformulate it as a principled harmonization approach. Specifically, we propose Harmonizer, a module that reshapes spectral structures and implicitly harmonizing PSDs across datasets, which theoretically corresponds to a shared reparameterization of second-order temporal correlations. Our theoretical analysis further reveals token interactions with Harmonizer can be efficiently mediated by a compact set of resonators, motivating a HarmonicAttention design that performs self-attention in a low-dimensional interaction space. Then, we propose Olivia, a novel time series foundation model built upon these harmonization mechanisms. Extensive experiments on two large-scale benchmarks (TSLib and GIFT-Eval) and extra 6 datasets from GluonTS, demonstrate Olivia consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance under zero-shot, few-shot, and full-shot forecasting scenarios. Our code is available at https://github.com/TSTS13/Olivia.
title Olivia: Harmonizing Time Series Foundation Models with Power Spectral Density
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.17340