arXiv:2605.08857cs.LG2026-05

RareCP通过识别误差模式提升时间序列预测的置信区间效率。

RareCP: Regime-Aware Retrieval for Efficient Conformal Prediction

论文配图:RareCP: Regime-Aware Retrieval for Efficient Conformal Prediction
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  • 用多个专家捕捉不同误差模式,动态匹配最相关历史样本。
  • 在GIFT-Eval上比基线提升区间效率,覆盖率仍达标。
  • 适合需要高效且可靠不确定性的时序预测场景。

近期时间序列预测的不确定性量化研究显示,共形预测可提供可靠的预测区间,但标准方法在时间依赖、漂移和异质误差行为下常效率低下。现有方法通常仅随时间更新误覆盖率或学习无约束校准权重,未显式区分两大非平稳来源:平滑漂移的误差分布与共存的独立误差模式。本文提出RareCP,一种面向误差模式的时间序列自适应共形预测方法。RareCP通过余弦注意力专家混合学习局部校准表示,每个专家捕捉特定误差模式;同时,紧凑型超网络适配核参数以跟踪时间漂移。对于新预测上下文,RareCP检索最相关的k个校准样本,赋予相似性权重,并基于其带符号残差形成加权共形分位数,生成非对称预测区间。自适应核通过平滑区间得分目标训练,以轻量级教师核为参数空间锚点,保持稳定的局部表示。在GIFT-Eval基准测试中,RareCP在保持经验覆盖率的同时,相比近期共形基线和基础模型不确定性估计显著提升了区间效率。消融实验验证了模式专属专家、漂移自适应核、稀疏检索和教师锚定对性能的贡献。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recent advances in uncertainty quantification for time series forecasting show that conformal prediction can provide reliable prediction intervals, yet standard conformal methods are often inefficient under temporal dependence, drift, and heterogeneous error behavior. Existing methods typically either update miscoverage rates over time or learn unconstrained calibration weights, without explicitly separating two central sources of nonstationarity: smoothly drifting error distributions and co-existing distinct error regimes. We introduce RareCP, a regime-aware retrieval method for adaptive conformal time series prediction. RareCP learns local calibration representations through a mixture of cosine-attention experts that each capture distinct error regimes, while a compact hypernetwork adapts the kernel parameters to track temporal drift. Given a new forecasting context, RareCP retrieves the top-k most relevant calibration examples, assigns similarity weights, and forms a weighted conformal quantile over their signed residuals, yielding asymmetric prediction intervals. The adaptive kernel is trained using a smooth interval score objective, with a parameter-space anchor to a lightweight teacher kernel to preserve stable local representations. On the GIFT-Eval benchmark, RareCP improves interval efficiency over recent conformal baselines and foundation model uncertainty estimates while maintaining empirical coverage. Ablations confirm that regime-specific experts, drift-adaptive kernels, sparse retrieval, and teacher anchoring each contribute to the final performance.

共形预测时间序列不确定性量化模式识别

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