Multimodal Forecasting for Commodity Prices Using Spectrogram-Based and Time Series Representations
Forecasting multivariate time series remains challenging due to complex cross-variable dependencies and the presence of heterogeneous external influences. This paper presents Spectrogram-Enhanced Multimodal Fusion (SEMF), which combines spectral and temporal representations for more accurate and robust forecasting. The target time series is transformed into Morlet wavelet spectrograms, from which a Vision Transformer encoder extracts localized, frequency-aware features. In parallel, exogenous variables, such as financial indicators and macroeconomic signals, are encoded via a Transformer to capture temporal dependencies and multivariate dynamics. A bidirectional cross-attention module integrates these modalities into a unified representation that preserves distinct signal characteristics while modeling cross-modal correlations. Applied to multiple commodity price forecasting tasks, SEMF achieves consistent improvements over seven competitive baselines across multiple forecasting horizons and evaluation metrics. These results demonstrate the effectiveness of multimodal fusion and spectrogram-based encoding in capturing multi-scale patterns within complex financial time series.
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