arXiv:2601.05613cs.LGcs.AI2026-01

解决分布式时间序列预测中数据结构不一致的难题,实现跨节点高效协同建模。

PiXTime: A Model for Federated Time Series Forecasting with Heterogeneous Data across Nodes

  • 采用参数解耦架构,分离本地适配模块与全局共享主干。
  • 在多个基准上超越现有方法,在异构与同构环境下均表现优异。
  • 适合数据格式不统一的工业级时间序列协同预测场景。

分布式时间序列协同预测虽具吸引力,但直接汇聚本地数据常受数据共享限制。联邦学习提供可行方案,但传统算法需同构模型结构,难以应对去中心化节点间常见的时序分辨率不齐、变量通道错配等结构差异。为此,我们提出PiXTime,一种基于Transformer的新型框架,可原生支持并利用结构异构的时间数据。其核心为参数解耦架构,将模型分为本地个性化模块与全局聚合共享主干。具体而言,节点专属的本地模块作为维度适配器,将不同长度的原始序列映射至统一表示空间;同时,全局同步的VE表向特征空间注入一致的类别标识,使共享主干能协作学习并泛化跨不一致变量分布的表示。在多个基准上的全面评估表明,PiXTime在异构联邦环境达到最先进性能,且在标准同构及集中式预测设置下仍保持显著优势。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

While collaborative forecasting on distributed time series is highly desirable, directly pooling localized datasets is often impractical due to data sharing constraints. Federated learning offers a promising alternative, yet conventional federated learning algorithms require homogeneous model architectures, which are incompatible with the structural discrepancies, such as unaligned temporal resolutions and mismatched variable channels, commonly observed across decentralized nodes. To bridge this gap, we introduce PiXTime, a novel Transformer-based framework designed to natively accommodate and leverage structurally heterogeneous temporal data. At its core, PiXTime adopts a parameter-decoupling architecture, strategically partitioning the model into localized personalized modules and a globally aggregated shared backbone. Specifically, node-specific local modules act as dimensional adapters, projecting raw sequences of diverse lengths into a unified representation space. Concurrently, a globally synchronized VE Table injects consistent categorical identities into the feature space, allowing the shared backbone to collaboratively learn and generalize representations across inconsistent variable distributions. Comprehensive evaluations on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that PiXTime achieves state-of-the-art performance in heterogeneous federated environments, while maintaining robust superiority in standard homogeneous and centralized forecasting settings.

联邦学习时间序列异构数据Transformer

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