Conditional skip liquid neural networks: an efficient inference framework for large-scale time-series cloud resource prediction
摘要
Liquid Neural Networks (LNNs), characterized by their continuous-time dynamical formulation, offer strong performance in time-series forecasting but suffer from high inference costs due to reliance on numerical Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE) solvers. To mitigate this limitation, this paper introduces an efficient LNN architecture incorporating a conditional skip mechanism that exploits the temporally non-uniform structure of cloud workloads. A parallel framework is constructed with a precise path preserving the original ODE-based computation and an approximate path employing parameterized linear interpolation. A skip decision module, informed by local statistical measures and combined with adaptive step-size control, enables dynamic regulation of computational density. Theoretical analysis shows that under a bounded skip policy, prediction error remains controlled and scales linearly with the product of the skip rate and step size, yielding a complexity reduction of