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Lightweight time-frequency representation learning for time series forecasting
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Continuous Wavelet Transform (CWT) offers fine-grained time-frequency analysis but incurs substantial computational overhead, whereas Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT), though efficient, struggles to represent features across continuous scales. To address this limitation, we propose LTF-Net, a lightweight time-frequency fusion framework. LTF-Net introduces a learnable wavelet kernel (LCWT) to construct a pseudo-continuous wavelet decomposition, effectively preserving rich time-frequency structures while markedly reducing computational cost. Complemented by global frequency representations extracted via the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and a cross-domain attention mechanism that integrates the wavelet and Fourier branches, the model jointly captures long-term periodic patterns and local non-stationary dynamics. Extensive experiments on multiple long-horizon forecasting benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of LTF-Net. Across ECL, Weather, ETTh1, ETTh2, ETTm1, and ETTm2, LTF-Net consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, achieving nearly 40% MSE improvement over TimesNet on ETTm2. Competitive performance is also observed on the Traffic dataset. Overall, LTF-Net exhibits strong multi-scale modeling capability and robust generalization in long-term time series forecasting.
Keywords:
Time-frequency analysis
Wavelet methods
Fourier analysis
Time series forecasting
Multi-scale modeling
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