Raw-Routed Mixture of Adapters: A Causal Intervention for Routing Collapse in Time Series Foundation Models
Time series foundation models (TSFMs) commonly adapt to new data by attaching a single trainable head to a frozen backbone, a one-size-fits-all setup that underfits heterogeneous regimes. Replacing the head with a mixture of experts is the standard upgrade, but on instance-normalized backbones (the dominant TSFM design class) it fails: routing entropy collapses to zero and one expert absorbs every input, a failure we call normalization-induced routing collapse. Standard MoE rescue mechanisms do not repair it, because the cause is in the router's input, not its optimization. Pre-encoder normalization strips the statistics a router would need to tell regimes apart. A mutual-information deco...
| Authors | Hung Phan, Thuy T. Nguyen, Minh Ngoc Dinh et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.LG |
| Published | 30 September 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 30 September 2026 |
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