Publications

CATS: Enhancing Multivariate Time Series Forecasting by Constructing Auxiliary Time Series as Exogenous Variables

ICML 2024 PMLR 235: 32990–33006

Jiecheng Lu, Xu Han, Yan Sun, Shihao Yang

Constructs Auxiliary Time Series (ATS) as exogenous inputs to capture inter‑series relations; identifies continuity, sparsity, and variability principles; improves multivariate TSF even with simple predictors.

A modular approach that augments original series with ATS to model cross‑series structure efficiently, yielding strong accuracy/complexity trade‑offs.