ProbRes: Volatility Learning for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting

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Main Authors: Wang, Tingting, Zhang, Yunyi, Wang, Benyou
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author Wang, Tingting
Zhang, Yunyi
Wang, Benyou
author_facet Wang, Tingting
Zhang, Yunyi
Wang, Benyou
contents Probabilistic time series forecasting has attracted increasing attention in financial applications due to the need to quantify risk and uncertainty in future observations. We propose ProbRes, a post-hoc probabilistic calibration method that explicitly learns and incorporates volatility dynamics into probabilistic forecasting, enabling effective handling of heteroskedastic data. During training, ProbRes employs two architecture-agnostic modules to separately model the conditional mean and conditional volatility. At the inference stage, it generates predictive distributions by resampling normalized residuals. ProbRes is applicable to both univariate and multivariate time series and remains robust under a wide range of error distributions, including non-Gaussian innovations with conditional heteroskedasticity. Theoretical results demonstrate ProbRes's validity and experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that ProbRes accurately captures predictive distributions and produces well-calibrated prediction intervals.
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spellingShingle ProbRes: Volatility Learning for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting
Wang, Tingting
Zhang, Yunyi
Wang, Benyou
Machine Learning
Methodology
Probabilistic time series forecasting has attracted increasing attention in financial applications due to the need to quantify risk and uncertainty in future observations. We propose ProbRes, a post-hoc probabilistic calibration method that explicitly learns and incorporates volatility dynamics into probabilistic forecasting, enabling effective handling of heteroskedastic data. During training, ProbRes employs two architecture-agnostic modules to separately model the conditional mean and conditional volatility. At the inference stage, it generates predictive distributions by resampling normalized residuals. ProbRes is applicable to both univariate and multivariate time series and remains robust under a wide range of error distributions, including non-Gaussian innovations with conditional heteroskedasticity. Theoretical results demonstrate ProbRes's validity and experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets show that ProbRes accurately captures predictive distributions and produces well-calibrated prediction intervals.
title ProbRes: Volatility Learning for Probabilistic Time-Series Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02117