Leaky-integrator reconstruction: taming error accumulation in recursive differenced time-series forecasting

Zijiang Yang

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Abstract: Recursive differenced forecasting, the standard remedy for non-stationarity, predicts one-step changes and integrates them by cumulative summation. We show that this reconstruction is a discrete integrator with a pole on the unit circle, so the biased increment errors of a learned nonlinear model are summed without bound and the rollout diverges: at 336 steps its normalised MAE reaches 1.6-3.8 for every neural architecture tested, against 0.80 for a stable linear recursion. We then introduce leaky-integrator reconstruction, a training-free fix that moves the pole inside the unit circle with H(z) = 1/(1 - gamma z^-1), gamma

Date: 2026-09, Revised 2026-09
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