cs.IT, cs.LG, math.IT, stat.AP, stat.ML

Forecastability as an Information-Theoretic Limit on Prediction

arXiv:2603.27074v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Forecasting is usually framed as a problem of model choice. This paper starts earlier, asking how much predictive information is available at each horizon. Under logarithmic loss, the answer is exact: …