DropoutTS: Sample-Adaptive Dropout for Robust Time Series Forecasting
HKUST(GZ) / Beta Infinity · The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou) · Reading University · Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Institute of Computig Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Squirrel Ai Learning · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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摘要
Deep time series models are vulnerable to noisy data ubiquitous in real-world applications. Existing robustness strategies either prune data or rely on costly prior quantification, failing to balance effectiveness and efficiency. In this paper, we introduce DropoutTS, a model-agnostic plugin that shifts the paradigm from "what" to learn to "how much" to learn. DropoutTS employs a Sample-Adaptive Dropout mechanism: leveraging spectral sparsity to efficiently quantify instance-level noise via reconstruction residuals, it dynamically calibrates model learning capacity by mapping noise to adaptive dropout rates—selectively suppressing spurious fluctuations while preserving fine-grained fidelity. Extensive experiments across diverse noise regimes and open benchmarks show DropoutTS consistently boosts superior backbones’ performance, delivering advanced robustness with negligible parameter overhead and no architectural modifications. Our code is available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/DropoutTS/.