DSENet: A Novel Dual-Stream Enhancement Network for Multi-Scale Non-Stationary Time Series Forecasting

Abstract (source: OpenReview · © authors)

Accurately capturing local variations in long series has always been one of the most challenging problems in time-series forecasting especially in medical signals, where local variations often indicate pathological events. Our study reveals a previously overlooked key bottleneck in this field: traditional global and local branches learn similar representations, leading to strong feature coupling and reduced sensitivity to local variations. To address this challenge, we propose the novel Dual-Stream Enhancement Mechanism, which structurally enlarges the difference between global and local patterns, enabling weak interactions between the two. Based on this idea, we introduce a new baseline model for blood glucose prediction: Dual-Stream Enhancement Network (DSENet), which fundamentally alleviates the problem of excessively strong coupling between global and local features. Experimental results show that our model achieves SOTA performance on multiple public datasets. Moreover, benefiting from extremely low computational cost, our model demonstrates strong application potential and can serve as a baseline model in multiple domains in the future.

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