TimePre Paper Lands in TMLR: Reversible Normalization Fixes MCL Instability in Forecasting

_vztu · x · 2026-09-23

The TimePre paper on probabilistic time-series forecasting has been accepted to TMLR. It studies combining lightweight forecasting backbones with Multiple Choice Learning (MCL), identifying scale imbalance under WTA training as the key cause of optimization instability and hypothesis collapse. A simple reversible normalization method stabilizes multi-hypothesis learning, achieving the best Distortion across all six benchmarks while keeping inference cheap via single-pass prediction. Paper and code are open-sourced.

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