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MICA: Multivariate Infini Compressive Attention for Time Series Forecasting

Willa Potosnak , Nina \.Zukowska , Micha{\l} Wili\'nski , Dan Howarth , Ignacy St\k{e}pka , Mononito Goswami , Artur Dubrawski
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MICA adds a linear-scaling cross-channel attention mechanism to channel-independent Transformers, cutting multivariate forecast error by 5.4 percent on average.

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The paper addresses the scalability barrier in multivariate time series forecasting with Transformers, where full attention across both time and channels grows quadratically in both dimensions and becomes unusable for high-dimensional data. It proposes Multivariate Infini Compressive Attention (MICA) as a way to graft efficient cross-channel modeling onto existing channel-independent backbones while preserving linear complexity in channel count and context length. Experiments on standard forecasting benchmarks show that adding MICA improves accuracy over the channel-independent baselines, with the largest gains on individual datasets reaching 25.4 percent, and places the resulting models ahead of other deep multivariate Transformer and MLP approaches.

Core claim

By adapting compressive attention techniques from the sequence dimension to the channel dimension, MICA supplies an explicit cross-channel attention layer that scales linearly rather than quadratically, allowing channel-independent Transformer architectures to become channel-dependent without prohibitive cost and yielding lower forecast errors together with top ranking among deep multivariate baselines.

What carries the argument

Multivariate Infini Compressive Attention (MICA), which transplants efficient attention compression from the temporal axis to the channel axis so that inter-variable dependencies can be modeled explicitly while complexity remains linear in both channel count and context length.

If this is right

  • Multivariate forecasting with Transformers becomes practical at higher channel counts without quadratic blow-up.
  • Explicit cross-channel modeling produces measurable accuracy gains over purely channel-independent designs.
  • Models equipped with MICA outperform both channel-independent Transformers and other deep multivariate MLP and Transformer baselines on standard benchmarks.
  • Forecasting pipelines can scale context length and variable count more efficiently than architectures that attend jointly over time and channels.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same compression principle could be ported to other attention-heavy multivariate sequence tasks such as multi-sensor signal processing or multi-speaker audio modeling.
  • Combining MICA with existing temporal-efficiency techniques might further extend the feasible size of multivariate forecasting problems.
  • The observed gains suggest that many real-world time series contain exploitable cross-channel structure that channel-independent models currently ignore.

Load-bearing premise

The compressive mechanism retains the inter-variable dependencies that actually matter for forecasting accuracy.

What would settle it

On a new high-dimensional dataset where full cross-channel attention is still computationally feasible, MICA either matches or underperforms the channel-independent baseline while a non-compressive full-attention model improves further.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.06473 by Artur Dubrawski, Dan Howarth, Ignacy St\k{e}pka, Micha{\l} Wili\'nski, Mononito Goswami, Nina \.Zukowska, Willa Potosnak.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: MICA consists of local attention to capture temporal dependencies and global linear attention to capture cross-channel information, combined via a mixing gate. Attention outputs are shown as patch (token) × d matrices, where darker cells indicate stronger weighted values. et al., 2021), energy (Olivares et al., 2022a; Liu et al., 2025), supply chain (Gonçalves et al., 2021), healthcare (Potosnak et al., 20… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: MICA is an attention-based architectural design proposed to model both local patterns and global cross-channel interactions. Q, K, and V denote the query, key and value matrices and N denotes the number of attention heads. MICA consists of three complementary components: (1) a scaled dot-product attention module that models detailed temporal relationships locally within individual time series, (2) a linear… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Average rank across datasets vs. computational cost (GFLOPs). PatchTST-MICAand MOMENT-MICA achieve best average rank across datasets in terms of MAE with relatively small computational overhead increase over their univariate counterparts. Marker size reflects trainable parameter count. GFLOPs are estimated at C = 7, H = 48, and L = 96 as a representative low-dimensional setting. Multivariate Output Layer. … view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: log10 GFLOPs and log10 inference speed (ms) vs. channel count C ∈ [7, 600] for multivariate models. MLP-based methods are the most computationally efficient across all channel counts. Among Transformer-based models, MICA variants scale the best with the exception of iTransformer while substantially outperforming Crossformer, Timer-XL, and Chronos-2 in both GFLOPs and inference speed. The dashed line indica… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: log10 GFLOPs and log10 inference time (ms) vs. context length L ∈ [64, 8192] for multivariate models, with channel count (C = 7) and horizon (H = 48) held constant. MLP-based methods are the most computationally efficient overall; however, MICA models outperform TimeMixer in both GFLOPs and inference speed. Among Transformer-based models, MICA variants scale the best with the exception of iTransformer whil… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Distribution of percentage error reduction across datasets achieved by PatchTST-MICA and MOMENT-MICA (MLP w/ Query gate) relative to their univariate implementations. MICA variants achieve lower median forecasting error across datasets. GFLOPs and 77ms inference time, with PatchTST-MICA requiring 3.6× fewer GFLOPs and achieving 9.7× faster inference. Crossformer reaches approximately 205 GFLOPs and 23ms in… view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: MICA is a attention-based architectural design proposed to model both local patterns and global cross-channel interactions. Q, K, and V denote the query, key and value matrices and N denotes the number of attention heads. MICA consists of three complementary components: (1) a quadratic attention module that models detailed temporal relationships locally within individual time series, (2) a linear attention… view at source ↗
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Figure 8. Figure 8: MICA is a attention-based architectural design proposed to model both local patterns and global cross-channel interactions. Q, K, and V denote the query, key and value matrices and N denotes the number of attention heads. MICA consists of three complementary components: (1) a quadratic attention module that models detailed temporal relationships locally within individual time series, (2) a linear attention… view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: MICA is a attention-based architectural design proposed to model both local patterns and global cross-channel interactions. Q, K, and V denote the query, key and value matrices and N denotes the number of attention heads. MICA consists of three complementary components: (1) a quadratic attention module that models detailed temporal relationships locally within individual time series, (2) a linear attention… view at source ↗
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: GFLOPs and inference speed (ms) vs. channel count C ∈ [7, 600] for multivariate models. MLP-based methods (TSMixer, MLP) are the most computationally efficient across all channel counts. Among Transformer-based models, MICA variants scale the best with the exception of iTransformerwhile substantially outperforming Crossformer, Timer-XL, and Chronos-2 in both GFLOPs and inference speed. The dashed line ind… view at source ↗
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: GFLOPs and inference time (ms) vs. context length L ∈ [64, 8192] for multivariate models, with channel count (C = 7) and horizon (H = 48) held constant. MLP-based methods (TSMixer, MLP) are the most computationally efficient across all channel counts. One exception is TimeMixer, which is outperformed by MICA models in both GFLOPs and inference speed. Among Transformer-based models, MICA variants scale the… view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Distribution of percentage error reduction across datasets when augmenting MOMENT with different MICA gate variants, comparing channel inclusion (incl.) and channel exclusion (excl.) approaches relative to the original univariate implementation. Channel inclusion variants achieve comparable MAE reductions to channel exclusion variants while requiring less computation. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4.7 L… view at source ↗
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Figure 13. Figure 13: Critical Difference diagrams based on Friedman test (α = 0.2) with post-hoc Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (Holm-corrected). Horizontal bars connect methods with no statistically significant performance differences. Lower ranks indicate better performance. For MOMENT, β-based gates achieve lower forecast error across datasets (top ranks 4.7-6.2). 28 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p028_13.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 14. Figure 14: Distribution of percentage error reduction across datasets when augmenting PatchTST with different MICA gate variants, comparing channel inclusion (incl.) and channel exclusion (excl.) approaches relative to the original univariate implementation. Channel inclusion variants achieve comparable MAE reductions to channel exclusion variants while requiring less computation. 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 MLP… view at source ↗
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Figure 15. Figure 15: Critical Difference diagrams based on Friedman test (α = 0.2) with post-hoc Wilcoxon signed-rank tests (Holm-corrected). Horizontal bars connect methods with no statistically significant performance differences. Lower ranks indicate better performance. For PatchTST, MLP-based gates achieve lower forecast error across datasets (top ranks 3.2-4.5). 29 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p029_15.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 16. Figure 16: Training and validation loss (MAE) trajectories for a subset of datasets. Trajectories are averaged over random seeds at each training step. We compare PatchTST and MOMENT (solid lines) with their MICA variants (MLP with query gate; dashed lines). The MICA models generally achieve comparable or lower loss on both train and validation sets, indicating that cross-channel attention improves both optimization… view at source ↗
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Multivariate forecasting with Transformers faces a core scalability challenge: modeling cross-channel dependencies via attention compounds attention's quadratic sequence complexity with quadratic channel scaling, making full cross-channel attention impractical for high-dimensional time series. We propose Multivariate Infini Compressive Attention (MICA), an architectural design to extend channel-independent Transformers to channel-dependent forecasting. By adapting efficient attention techniques from the sequence dimension to the channel dimension, MICA adds a cross-channel attention mechanism to channel-independent backbones that scales linearly with channel count and context length. We evaluate channel-independent Transformer architectures with and without MICA across multiple forecasting benchmarks. MICA reduces forecast error over its channel-independent counterparts by 5.4% on average and up to 25.4% on individual datasets, highlighting the importance of explicit cross-channel modeling. Moreover, models with MICA rank first among deep multivariate Transformer and MLP baselines. MICA models also scale more efficiently with respect to both channel count and context length than Transformer baselines that compute attention across both the temporal and channel dimensions, establishing compressive attention as a practical solution for scalable multivariate forecasting.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The paper introduces Multivariate Infini Compressive Attention (MICA), an adaptation of efficient attention techniques to the channel dimension that enables linear-scaling cross-channel modeling within channel-independent Transformer backbones for multivariate time series forecasting. It claims that adding MICA yields 5.4% average forecast error reduction (up to 25.4% on individual datasets) over channel-independent counterparts, first-place ranking among deep multivariate Transformer and MLP baselines, and better scaling than full temporal+channel attention Transformers.

Significance. If the compressive cross-channel mechanism preserves relevant inter-variable dependencies, the work offers a practical route to scalable multivariate forecasting that avoids quadratic channel complexity. The empirical ranking results and scaling claims, if substantiated with full experimental controls, would strengthen the case for explicit but efficient cross-channel modeling over purely channel-independent designs.

major comments (2)
  1. [Experiments / Results] The central claim that MICA's linear compressive attention faithfully captures predictive cross-channel dependencies (without meaningful information loss relative to full quadratic attention) is load-bearing for attributing the 5.4% gains to cross-channel modeling rather than other design choices. No head-to-head forecast error comparison to full cross-channel attention is reported on any low-channel dataset where the quadratic version remains tractable.
  2. [Abstract and §4] Abstract and results sections report average and peak error reductions plus rankings but provide no details on statistical significance testing, error bars, exact data splits, or ablation controls isolating the compressive attention component. This prevents verification that the reported improvements are robust.
minor comments (2)
  1. [§3] Notation for the adapted efficient attention (e.g., definitions of key matrices or compression operators) could be made more explicit with an additional equation or diagram in the method section.
  2. [Tables in §4] Table captions should explicitly state the number of runs or seeds used for each reported metric to aid reproducibility.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their insightful comments, which have helped us improve the clarity and rigor of our manuscript. We address the major comments point by point below.

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  1. Referee: [Experiments / Results] The central claim that MICA's linear compressive attention faithfully captures predictive cross-channel dependencies (without meaningful information loss relative to full quadratic attention) is load-bearing for attributing the 5.4% gains to cross-channel modeling rather than other design choices. No head-to-head forecast error comparison to full cross-channel attention is reported on any low-channel dataset where the quadratic version remains tractable.

    Authors: We agree that direct comparisons on low-channel datasets would provide stronger evidence that the compressive attention does not incur significant information loss compared to full attention. Although our paper focuses on scalability for high-dimensional series, we will conduct and report additional experiments on datasets with small numbers of channels (such as those with 5-20 variables) to compare MICA against full cross-channel attention, thereby isolating the effect of the compressive mechanism. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Abstract and §4] Abstract and results sections report average and peak error reductions plus rankings but provide no details on statistical significance testing, error bars, exact data splits, or ablation controls isolating the compressive attention component. This prevents verification that the reported improvements are robust.

    Authors: We appreciate this feedback on the need for more detailed statistical reporting. In the revised version, we will add error bars representing standard deviations across multiple random seeds, specify the exact train/validation/test splits used, perform statistical significance tests (e.g., Wilcoxon signed-rank tests) on the improvements, and include more comprehensive ablations that isolate the compressive attention module from other design elements. revision: yes

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No circularity: empirical evaluation on external benchmarks

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The paper proposes an architectural extension (MICA) for multivariate time series forecasting and evaluates it empirically by measuring forecast error reductions on standard public benchmarks against channel-independent baselines and other multivariate models. No derivation chain, first-principles equations, or fitted-parameter predictions are claimed; the headline 5.4% average improvement is a direct experimental outcome on held-out test sets rather than a quantity forced by construction from the model's own inputs or self-citations. The compressive attention mechanism is presented as an engineering adaptation whose value is assessed externally, satisfying the criteria for a self-contained, non-circular result.

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Abstract-only review provides no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities; the method implicitly relies on standard Transformer assumptions and the effectiveness of compressive attention, but none are detailed here.

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