Time series forecasting presents significant challenges in predicting complex temporal patterns across varying horizons. We introduce TimeFlowDiffuser, a novel framework that adapts diffusion models for time series forecasting through a hierarchical structure with adaptive context sampling. Our approach incorporates: (1) a Hierarchical Temporal Resolution module that processes time series at multiple scales; (2) an Adaptive Context Sampling mechanism that dynamically selects relevant historical context; (3) a Frequency-Aware Conditioning component that handles different frequency components; and (4) a Multi-Horizon Generation strategy for efficient prediction at various time horizons. Experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that TimeFlowDiffuser consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving average improvements of 7.2% in MSE and 6.3% in MAE, with particularly strong performance on long-horizon forecasting tasks. Our approach shows enhanced robustness to missing values and distributional shifts, with computational trade-offs discussed in Sect. 5.6.

错误:搜索内容不能为空,请输入英文关键词
错误:关键词超出字数限制,请精简
高级检索

TimeFlowDiffuser: A Hierarchical Diffusion Framework with Adaptive Context Sampling for Multi-horizon Time Series Forecasting

  • Wei Li

摘要

Time series forecasting presents significant challenges in predicting complex temporal patterns across varying horizons. We introduce TimeFlowDiffuser, a novel framework that adapts diffusion models for time series forecasting through a hierarchical structure with adaptive context sampling. Our approach incorporates: (1) a Hierarchical Temporal Resolution module that processes time series at multiple scales; (2) an Adaptive Context Sampling mechanism that dynamically selects relevant historical context; (3) a Frequency-Aware Conditioning component that handles different frequency components; and (4) a Multi-Horizon Generation strategy for efficient prediction at various time horizons. Experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that TimeFlowDiffuser consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving average improvements of 7.2% in MSE and 6.3% in MAE, with particularly strong performance on long-horizon forecasting tasks. Our approach shows enhanced robustness to missing values and distributional shifts, with computational trade-offs discussed in Sect. 5.6.