TimesNet: Temporal 2D-Variation Modeling for Time Series

TimesNet is a general-purpose time-series model introduced by Wu et al. at ICLR 2023. Its central idea is that univariate or multivariate time series can be reinterpreted as collections of two-dimensional temporal maps by reshaping the 1D signal according to its dominant periodicities, detected via Fast Fourier Transform. This 1D-to-2D transformation exposes both intraperiod patterns (within one cycle) and interperiod trends (across cycles), enabling powerful 2D convolutional architectures to model temporal variation.