面向预测稳定性的通道感知时频解耦多变量时序预测

Channel-aware time–frequency disentanglement for multivariate time series forecasting under complex dependency structures

  • 摘要: 多变量时序预测是智能调度、风险防控与资源配置的核心技术. 尽管Transformer模型特征表达能力强大,但在通道建模与监督机制上仍存在不足. 在高维场景下,直接对所有变量统一建模会引入大量冗余与噪声通道,导致通道结构的失真. 这不仅干扰了关键时序特征的提取,更会在多步迭代预测中破坏模型对标签自回归依赖的建模,引发预测误差的级联放大,极大地加剧了监督偏差与预测不稳定性. 为此,本文提出一种面向预测稳定性的通道感知时频解耦预测模型(CATFD).该模型采用主辅双分支结构:主分支融合混合专家机制与多尺度解耦,挖掘多尺度时序特征. 辅分支构建可学习通道掩码,在频域中筛除冗余通道,并通过掩码注意力机制调控主分支建模路径. 在此基础上,引入双域动态联合监督机制协同优化时频域损失,并显式建模标签自相关结构,有效缓解监督偏差问题. 实验结果表明,CATFD模型在电力、交通、金融等多个真实数据集上均取得了优异表现,不仅验证了其有效性与泛化性,同时也展示了在噪声环境下的鲁棒性与抗扰动能力.

     

    Abstract: Multivariate time-series forecasting is a core technology for a wide range of critical applications, including intelligent scheduling, risk management, and resource allocation in complex modern systems. Although transformer-based models have demonstrated formidable capabilities in capturing long-range dependencies through sophisticated self-attention mechanisms, their practical effectiveness in high-dimensional scenarios remains significantly restricted by inherent deficiencies in channel modeling strategies and supervision mechanisms. In typical high-dimensional real-world settings, modeling all variables jointly and uniformly tends to introduce a disproportionate number of redundant or weakly correlated channels, which inevitably leads to distortion of the underlying channel structures. This structural distortion not only interferes with the extraction of critical informative temporal features, but also disrupts the model's ability to accurately capture and learn the label autoregressive dependencies inherently prevalent in future sequences, triggering a cascading amplification of prediction errors that exacerbates supervision bias and degrades forecasting stability. To address these multifaceted challenges, this paper proposes a novel channel-aware time–frequency disentangled (CATFD) forecasting model specifically oriented toward achieving long-term prediction stability. The model adopts a sophisticated dual-branch architecture comprising a main branch and an auxiliary branch to synergistically refine the temporal dynamics and purify channel structures. The main branch focuses on deep temporal modeling by integrating a mixture-of-experts mechanism with a multiscale decoupling module, where a dynamic routing system enables the adaptive selection of specialized representations under heterogeneous patterns, whereas adaptive filters capture multiscale dynamics by effectively separating long-term trends from seasonal fluctuations. Simultaneously, the auxiliary branch operates within the frequency domain to construct a learnable channel mask using a soft sparsity mechanism designed to filter out noisy and redundant channels, thereby ensuring that the model concentrates on the most informative variables. To achieve seamless cross-branch synergy, a masked attention mechanism is introduced to dynamically regulate the modeling paths of the main branch based on the refined structural importance provided by the auxiliary branch. Consequently, we further introduce a dual-domain dynamic joint supervision mechanism to collaboratively optimize time-domain prediction losses and frequency-domain reconstruction losses. By explicitly incorporating label autoregressive dependencies and leveraging the orthogonal properties of the frequency domain to weaken interlabel interference, this approach effectively mitigates the supervision bias problem and ensures temporal consistency across the prediction steps. Extensive experiments are conducted on multiple real-world datasets from diverse domains, including power systems (Electricity transformer temperature, ETT), transportation networks (Traffic), and financial markets (Exchange). The experimental results demonstrate that CATFD consistently achieves superior performance compared with representative state-of-the-art transformer- and graph-based baselines, with gains being particularly evident in long-horizon tasks, where error accumulation is traditionally the most significant. Furthermore, robustness tests conducted under various noisy environments and perturbation conditions verify that CATFD maintains stable performance with limited degradation, showcasing its exceptional anti-interference capability. These results collectively indicate that the proposed method significantly improves prediction consistency and generalization ability, providing a robust solution for multivariate time-series forecasting in complex and uncertain real-world scenarios.

     

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