arXiv:2509.23074v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: In the era of increasingly complex AI models for time series forecasting, progress is often measured by marginal improvements on benchmark leaderboards. However, this approach suffers from a fundamental flaw: standard evaluation metrics conflate a model's performance with the data's intrinsic unpredictability. To address this pressing challenge, we introduce a novel, predictability-aligned diagnostic framework grounded in spectral coherence. Our framework makes two primary contributions: the Spectral Coherence Predictability (SCP), a computat
The proliferation of complex AI models for time series forecasting necessitates more robust evaluation methods that account for inherent data unpredictability, a gap standard metrics currently fail to address.
This framework offers a critical diagnostic tool for researchers and practitioners, allowing for a more accurate assessment of AI model performance by distinguishing model efficacy from data's intrinsic randomness.
Evaluation of time series forecasting models will shift from simple leaderboard ranking to a predictability-aligned approach, potentially redirecting research and development efforts towards truly robust solutions.
- · AI model developers with robust solutions
- · Academics in time series forecasting
- · Industries relying on AI predictions
- · AI models that overfit unpredictable data
- · Benchmarks relying solely on traditional metrics
Researchers will adopt predictability-aligned metrics as a new standard for evaluating their time series forecasting models.
This improved evaluation will drive the development of more resilient and genuinely performant AI models, as the 'noise' of data unpredictability is filtered out.
Industries using these models will see a slow but steady improvement in forecasting accuracy and reliability for critical operations, potentially leading to more efficient resource allocation and risk management.
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