AI RESEARCH

Decentralized Attention Fails Centralized Signals: Rethinking Transformers for Medical Time Series

arXiv CS.LG

ArXi:2602.18473v2 Announce Type: replace Accurate analysis of medical time series (MedTS) data, such as electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocardiography (ECG), plays a pivotal role in healthcare applications, including the diagnosis of brain and heart diseases. MedTS data typically exhibit two critical patterns: temporal dependencies within individual channels and channel dependencies across multiple channels.