Summary of Ts-htfa: Advancing Time Series Forecasting Via Hierarchical Text-free Alignment with Large Language Models, by Pengfei Wang et al.
TS-HTFA: Advancing Time Series Forecasting via Hierarchical Text-Free Alignment with Large Language Models
by Pengfei Wang, Huanran Zheng, Qi’ao Xu, Silong Dai, Yiqiao Wang, Wenjing Yue, Wei Zhu, Tianwen Qian, Xiaoling Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes Hierarchical Text-Free Alignment (HTFA), a novel method for time-series forecasting using large language models (LLMs). Existing LLM-based approaches rely on paired text data, limiting their applicability. HTFA eliminates this dependency by introducing adaptive virtual text based on QR decomposition word embeddings and learnable prompts. The method establishes comprehensive cross-modal alignment at three levels: input, feature, and output. Experiments on multiple time-series benchmarks demonstrate that HTFA achieves state-of-the-art performance, improving prediction accuracy and generalization. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper talks about using special computer models to predict future events in a series of numbers. These models are usually trained with words or text, but that can be limiting. The researchers created a new way to make these models work without needing text data. They call it HTFA and it helps the model understand patterns better. By testing this method on many different datasets, they showed that it is very good at making predictions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Generalization » Time series
