arXiv:2601.10591cs.LGcs.AI2026-01中稿 · oral presentation …被引 1

ProbFM首次实现金融时间序列的可解释不确定性分解,提升预测可信度。

ProbFM: Probabilistic Time Series Foundation Model with Uncertainty Decomposition

  • 基于Transformer与证据学习,自动分解认知与随机不确定性
  • 在加密货币收益预测中保持准确率,同时提供可解释的不确定性输出
  • 适合关注模型可信度的量化交易与风控研究者

时间序列基础模型(TSFMs)在零样本金融预测中展现出强大迁移能力和数据效率。然而,其在金融应用中的推广受限于不确定性量化能力不足:现有方法或依赖强分布假设,或混淆不同不确定性来源,缺乏严谨校准机制。本文首次提出基于Transformer的概率框架ProbFM,采用深度证据回归(DER)实现理论支持的不确定性分解。与需预设分布或采样推断的方法不同,ProbFM通过高阶证据学习自动优化不确定性表示,且保持单次前向计算效率。为独立评估DER的有效性,我们在统一的LSTM架构下对五种概率方法(DER、高斯NLL、t分布NLL、分位数损失、分位数预测)进行控制对比。实验表明,DER在加密货币收益预测中保持竞争力的同时,明确分解出认知与随机不确定性。本工作既构建了可扩展的可信不确定性量化框架,也验证了DER在金融场景中的有效性。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) have emerged as a promising approach for zero-shot financial forecasting, demonstrating strong transferability and data efficiency gains. However, their adoption in financial applications is hindered by fundamental limitations in uncertainty quantification: current approaches either rely on restrictive distributional assumptions, conflate different sources of uncertainty, or lack principled calibration mechanisms. While recent TSFMs employ sophisticated techniques such as mixture models, Student's t-distributions, or conformal prediction, they fail to address the core challenge of providing theoretically-grounded uncertainty decomposition. For the very first time, we present a novel transformer-based probabilistic framework, ProbFM (probabilistic foundation model), that leverages Deep Evidential Regression (DER) to provide principled uncertainty quantification with explicit epistemic-aleatoric decomposition. Unlike existing approaches that pre-specify distributional forms or require sampling-based inference, ProbFM learns optimal uncertainty representations through higher-order evidence learning while maintaining single-pass computational efficiency. To rigorously evaluate the core DER uncertainty quantification approach independent of architectural complexity, we conduct an extensive controlled comparison study using a consistent LSTM architecture across five probabilistic methods: DER, Gaussian NLL, Student's-t NLL, Quantile Loss, and Conformal Prediction. Evaluation on cryptocurrency return forecasting demonstrates that DER maintains competitive forecasting accuracy while providing explicit epistemic-aleatoric uncertainty decomposition. This work establishes both an extensible framework for principled uncertainty quantification in foundation models and empirical evidence for DER's effectiveness in financial applications.

时间序列不确定性金融预测证据学习

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