Long-term time-series forecasters typically optimize a single numerical representation, even though the same history exposes complementary geometry, recurrence, and semantic structure. We propose AnchorMTS, which derives self-aligned visual and textual views from each observed window and uses them only to refine a complete numerical forecast. A trainable evidence path produces a candidate forecast, while a parameter-free output projection enforces an exact per-variable bound on its displacement from the numerical anchor.
Results
Across six benchmarks and four horizons, AnchorMTS achieves the best macro MSE/MAE (0.336/0.367) among seven supervised baselines and wins 18 of 24 MSE settings against the cellwise baseline envelope; removing the auxiliary path raises macro MSE to 0.340. The projection leaves 95.8% of candidate refinements unchanged while yielding zero bound violations, showing that complementary multi-view evidence can improve forecasting while its final influence remains explicitly controlled.
- Macro MSE/MAE: 0.336/0.367
- Wins: 18 of 24 MSE settings vs. the cellwise baseline envelope
- Ablation: removing the auxiliary path raises macro MSE to 0.340
- Projection: leaves 95.8% of candidate refinements unchanged; zero bound violations