Online Irregular Multivariate Time Series Forecasting via Uncertainty-Driven Dual-Expert Calibration
Irregular multivariate time series forecasting is critical in many real-world applications, where time series are irregularly sampled and exhibit dynamically evolving missingness patterns. Although existing methods perform well in offline settings, they often suffer from significant performance degradation when deployed online due to dynamic shifts in data distribution. Maintaining forecasting capability in such dynamic scenarios typically necessitates online adaptation techniques. Since irregular sampling fundamentally undermines temporal continuity and periodicity, we cannot leverage these widely studied characteristics from regular MTS for online learning. To this end, we study the problem of online IMTS forecasting and propose Under-Cali, an uncertainty-driven dual-expert calibration framework consisting of three core components: an uncertainty estimator, a dual-expert calibration module, and an adaptive routing module. We design an uncertainty estimator that serves as the core control signal to jointly manage inference and adaptation processes. In our framework, the uncertainty estimator first assesses uncertainty for each incoming batch. The adaptive routing module then directs samples with high uncertainty to the unreliable expert for calibration, while low uncertainty samples remain with the reliable expert. Subsequently, the system updates the reliable expert and the uncertainty estimator using well-calibrated reliable samples, and updates the unreliable expert with challenging samples, enabling stable and efficient online learning. Under-Cali keeps the source forecasting model frozen and performs adaptation only through a lightweight, model-agnostic calibration module, enabling efficient adaptation. Extensive experiments on IMTS benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements with low computational cost. Our code is available at https://github.com/HaonanWen/Under-Cali.
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