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ArticleScience advances2026

Tailored forecasting from short time series via meta-learning.

Declan A Norton, Edward Ott, Andrew Pomerance, Brian R Hunt, Michelle Girvan

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Article in Science advances, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Declan A NortonDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5383-0874
Edward OttDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Andrew PomerancePotomac Research LLC, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA.
Brian R HuntInstitute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.
Michelle GirvanDepartment of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7519-2842

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Abstract

Machine learning models can effectively forecast dynamical systems from time-series data, but they typically require large amounts of past data, making forecasting particularly challenging for systems with limited history. To overcome this, we introduce meta-learning for tailored forecasting using related time series (METAFORS), which generalizes knowledge across systems to enable forecasting in data-limited scenarios. By learning from a library of models trained on longer time series from potentially related systems, METAFORS builds and initializes a model tailored to short time-series data from the system of interest. Using a reservoir computing implementation and testing on simulated chaotic systems, we demonstrate that METAFORS can reliably predict both short-term dynamics and long-term statistics without requiring contextual labels. We see this even when test and related systems exhibit substantially different behaviors, highlighting METAFORS' strengths in data-limited scenarios.

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