MAP4TS: A Multi-Aspect Prompting Framework for Time-Series Forecasting with Large Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23090v1
• Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 07:51:54 GMT
• Title: MAP4TS: A Multi-Aspect Prompting Framework for Time-Series Forecasting with Large Language Models
• Authors: Suchan Lee, Jihoon Choi, Sohyeon Lee, Minseok Song, Bong-Gyu Jang, Hwanjo Yu, Soyeon Caren Han,
• Abstract summary: MAP4TS is a novel Multi-Aspect Prompting Framework that explicitly incorporates classical time-series analysis into the prompt design.<n>Our framework introduces four specialized prompt components: a Global Domain Prompt that conveys dataset-level context, a Local Domain Prompt that encodes recent trends and series-specific behaviors, and a pair of Statistical and Temporal Prompts that embed handcrafted insights.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Recent advances have investigated the use of pretrained large language models (LLMs) for time-series forecasting by aligning numerical inputs with LLM embedding spaces. However, existing multimodal approaches often overlook the distinct statistical properties and temporal dependencies that are fundamental to time-series data. To bridge this gap, we propose MAP4TS, a novel Multi-Aspect Prompting Framework that explicitly incorporates classical time-series analysis into the prompt design. Our framework introduces four specialized prompt components: a Global Domain Prompt that conveys dataset-level context, a Local Domain Prompt that encodes recent trends and series-specific behaviors, and a pair of Statistical and Temporal Prompts that embed handcrafted insights derived from autocorrelation (ACF), partial autocorrelation (PACF), and Fourier analysis. Multi-Aspect Prompts are combined with raw time-series embeddings and passed through a cross-modality alignment module to produce unified representations, which are then processed by an LLM and projected for final forecasting. Extensive experiments across eight diverse datasets show that MAP4TS consistently outperforms state-of-the-art LLM-based methods. Our ablation studies further reveal that prompt-aware designs significantly enhance performance stability and that GPT-2 backbones, when paired with structured prompts, outperform larger models like LLaMA in long-term forecasting tasks.

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