Time-HD High-Dimensional Time Series Forecasting Benchmark

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Core Claim

Time-HD is the benchmark-side contribution of U-Cast: a suite of high-dimensional multivariate time-series forecasting datasets intended to make channel count, cross-channel dependency, memory, and scalability visible in evaluation.

Dataset Notes

  • The U-Cast paper reports 16 datasets with 1,105 to 20,000 channels.
  • Domains include neural science, energy, cloud, weather, traffic, environment, epidemiology, finance, sales, web, and social behavior.
  • The benchmark uses frequency-specific prediction lengths rather than one fixed horizon.
  • Time-HD is a passive forecasting benchmark; it does not include actions, control inputs, interventions, or counterfactual rollout targets.

Why It Matters

Time-HD gives High-Dimensional Time Series Forecasting a concrete evaluation surface. It is stronger than ordinary low-channel forecasting benchmarks for testing whether a model can exploit non-redundant cross-channel information without being overwhelmed by channel-channel compute or global-trend collapse.

Limitations

  • The official Hugging Face dataset card is sparse relative to the paper, so provenance and terms should be checked against the paper and source datasets before operational use.
  • It is not an observability or telecom world-model benchmark because topology, event streams, and logged actions/interventions are not first-class fields.