Temporal Patch Shuffle (TPS): Leveraging Patch-Level Shuffling to Boost Generalization and Robustness in Time Series Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09067v1
• Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:45:02 GMT
• Title: Temporal Patch Shuffle (TPS): Leveraging Patch-Level Shuffling to Boost Generalization and Robustness in Time Series Forecasting
• Abstract summary: We propose Temporal Patch Shuffle (TPS), a simple and model-agnostic data augmentation method for forecasting.<n>TPS extracts overlapping temporal patches, shuffles a subset of patches using variance-based ordering as a conservative, and reconstructs the sequence by averaging overlapping regions.<n>This design increases sample diversity while preserving forecast-consistent local temporal structure.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Data augmentation is a crucial technique for improving model generalization and robustness, particularly in deep learning models where training data is limited. Although many augmentation methods have been developed for time series classification, most are not directly applicable to time series forecasting due to the need to preserve temporal coherence. In this work, we propose Temporal Patch Shuffle (TPS), a simple and model-agnostic data augmentation method for forecasting that extracts overlapping temporal patches, selectively shuffles a subset of patches using variance-based ordering as a conservative heuristic, and reconstructs the sequence by averaging overlapping regions. This design increases sample diversity while preserving forecast-consistent local temporal structure. We extensively evaluate TPS across nine long-term forecasting datasets using five recent model families (TSMixer, DLinear, PatchTST, TiDE, and LightTS), and across four short-term forecasting datasets using PatchTST, observing consistent performance improvements. Comprehensive ablation studies further demonstrate the effectiveness, robustness, and design rationale of the proposed method.

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