Temporal Convolutional Networks

Also known as TCN

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Temporal Convolutional Networks (TCNs) apply one-dimensional convolutions across time to recognize patterns in sequential data, often using causal, dilated, and residual layers to cover long histories efficiently. They are used for forecasting and classification in settings such as traffic, wearable sensors, EEG, speech, motion, and clinical signals, where parallel convolution can be a practical alternative to recurrent models. Common extensions add multi-scale filters, attention, graph structure, or physics-informed constraints to capture different temporal scales and domain relationships. TCNs are competitive in many tasks, but longer-range dependencies, robustness across subjects and settings, and whether strong predictions reflect useful temporal learning remain important challenges.

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  1. STeP-TS: Shared Temporal Filters with Pruning for Time Series

    Oct 26, 2026Hanne Raum, Jasper Hoffmann, Joschka BoedeckerMultivariate Time Series ForecastingMultiscale Time-Series Modeling

    Department of Computer Science Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg · Department of Computer Science and BrainLinks-BrainTools Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

  2. Turning TS2Vec into a Foundation Model for Time Series Classification

    Oct 20, 2026Vasilii Feofanov, Zhenghan Tai, Andrei Ermakov +1Time Series ClassificationTime-Series Foundation Models

    NL · University of Toronto · Université de Montréal Mila - Quebec AI Institute

  3. Neural Networks for Temporal Pattern Recognition and Dynamic Arm Gesture Speed Estimation for Robot Control

    Oct 8, 2026Milán Zsolt Bagladi, László GulyásRecurrent Neural NetworksRobotic Perception

    Department of Artificial Intelligence ELTE Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Hungary

  4. A Leakage-Aware Multimodal Evaluation Framework for Early Intraoperative Acute Kidney Injury Prediction

    Sep 22, 2026Quang Minh Nguyen, Duc Minh Le, Ho Nhat Minh Nguyen +2Temporal Convolutional NetworksClinical Prediction

    National Economics University, Hanoi, Vietnam

  5. Optical-Flow Wingbeat Counting in MuJoCo: A Comparison of Convolutional, Spiking, and Attention-Based Temporal Models

    Sep 15, 2026Zhang NengboOptical FlowAerial Robotics

    School of Aerospace Engineering, Engineering Campus Universiti Sains Malaysia, 14300 Nibong Tebal, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia

  6. EConv-TasNet: Efficient Conv-TasNet for Effective Speech Separation

    Sep 10, 2026Pei-Chun Chang, Chuan-Yi LiuEfficient Neural Network InferenceTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Novatek Microelectronics Corporation Hsinchu, Taiwan

  7. Predicting Future Organ Dysfunction in ICU Patients Using Temporal Convolutional Networks on MIMIC-IV Data

    Aug 29, 2026Razan Albouq, Asra AslamClinical Outcome PredictionTemporal Convolutional Networks

    University of Sheffield, UK

  8. A causal graph-informed temporal convolution architecture for interpretable retail electricity price forecasting

    Aug 26, 2026Yufan Ji, Abdollah Shafieezadeh, Noah DormadyElectricity Price ForecastingExplainable Time Series Forecasting

    Risk Assessment and Management of Structural and Infrastructural Systems (RAMSIS) Laboratory, Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geodetic Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, OH, USA · John Glenn College of Public Affairs, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 43210, OH, USA

  9. NanoSleep: A Parameter-Efficient Hybrid Temporal Convolutional Network for Single-Channel Sleep Stage Classification

    Aug 19, 2026S M Asif Hossain, Shruti KshirsagarSleep Stage ClassificationLightweight CNNs

    School of Computing, Wichita State University, Kansas, USA

  10. LITEWAY: LIghtweight HAR via Temporal Efficient highWAY

    Aug 10, 2026Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Mengxi Liu +2Efficient Neural Network InferenceHuman Activity Recognition

    RPTU, DFKI Kaiserslautern, Germany

  11. Deep Learning for Cyber Threat Detection and Mitigation in Healthcare-IoT

    Jul 31, 2026Mirza AkhiNetwork Intrusion DetectionCybersecurity

    Data-Driven Computer Engineering (D2ICE) Research Centre Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering University of Limerick

  12. Online Handwriting Trajectory Reconstruction from Kinematic Sensors using Temporal Convolutional Network

    Jul 29, 2026Wassim Swaileh, Florent Imbert, Yann Soullard +2Temporal Convolutional Networks

    1IRISA, Universit´e de Rennes, INSA Rennes, France. · 2LETG, IRISA, Universit´e Rennes 2, 35043 Rennes, France.

  13. Inferring Missing Trajectory Data with Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 27, 2026Ilinca Tiriblecea, Gabriel TuriniciTime Series ImputationTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Independent Researcher, Oxford, UK · CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, CNRS, Paris, FRANCE

  14. ATCNet-CIAM for Multi-Session Motor Imagery EEG Signal Classification

    Jul 26, 2026Le Huu Son Hai, Nguyen Chi Hai, Truong Viet Vu +3MI ClassificationBrain-Computer Interfaces

    Faculty of Information Technology, Van Lang School of Technology, Van Lang University, Ho Chi Minh City 70000, Vietnam

  15. Efficient and Interpretable Body-Based Emotion Recognition with Lightweight Temporal Convolutional Networks

    Jul 23, 2026Christian Arzate Cruz, Stefanos Gkikas, Houshyar AsadiEfficient Neural Network InferenceExplainable Artificial Intelligence

    Honda Research Institute Japan Wako City, Japan · Institute for Intelligent Systems Research and Innovations (IISRI) Deakin University Geelong, Australia

  16. Regime-Aware Physics-Guided Early Warning of Lithium-Ion Battery Thermal Runaway Using Thermo-Mechanical Signals

    Jul 21, 2026Syed Sajid Ullah, Muhammad Zunair Zamir, Salman KhanTemporal Convolutional NetworksPhysics-Informed ML

  17. RhyMix: A Lightweight Adaptive Multi-Rhythm Network for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting

    Jul 9, 2026Sumit Satishrao Shevtekar, Chandresh Kumar MauryaLong-Term Time Series ForecastingTime Series Forecasting

  18. Video-Text Temporal Localization via Multi-Scale Convolution and Dynamic Routing

    Jul 6, 2026Gengtian Shi, Jinze Yu, Chenhao Wu +5Temporal Video GroundingTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Graduate School of Fundamental Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan · Generative AI Innovation Center, Amazon Web Services, Japan · Amazon, Germany

  19. LSTM Variants for Chaotic Dynamical Systems: An Empirical Study on the Lorenz Attractor

    Jun 21, 2026Ruslan GokhmanTemporal Convolutional NetworksChaotic Dynamical Systems

    Yeshiva University

  20. Deep Temporal Modeling and Ensemble Fusion for Multimodal Emotion Recognition from Physiological Signals

    Jun 12, 2026Desta Haileselassie Hagos, Saurav Keshari Aryal, Patrick Ymele-Leki +2Temporal Convolutional NetworksDeep Ensembles

    Howard University Washington, DC, USA

  21. Physics-Guided Attention in a Lightweight TCN for Efficient WiFi CSI-Based Human Activity Recognition

    Jun 1, 2026Chinthaka Ranasingha, Tharindu Fernando, Sridha Sridharan +2Human Activity RecognitionTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence and Vision Technologies (SAIVT) Research Group, School of Electrical Engineering and Robotics, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia

  22. TARNet: A Temporal-Aware Multi-Scale Architecture for Closed-Set Speaker Identification

    May 8, 2026Yassin Terraf, Youssef IraqiAudio Representation LearningTemporal Convolutional Networks

    College of Computing, University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, Benguerir, Morocco · CID Development, Rabat, Morocco

  23. DualTCN: A Physics-Constrained Temporal Convolutional Network for 2 Time-Domain Marine CSEM Inversion

    May 6, 2026Khaled Ahmed, Ghada OmarTemporal Convolutional NetworksPhysics-Informed ML

    School of Computing, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA · School of Mathematics and Statistics, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, 62901, USA

  24. Time-series Meets Complex Motion Modeling: Robust and Computational-effective Motion Predictor for Multi-object Tracking

    May 1, 2026Nhat-Tan Do, Le-Huy Tu, Nhi Ngoc-Yen Nguyen +2Temporal Convolutional NetworksMulti-Object Tracking

    Faculty of Information Science and Engineering, University of Information Technology, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. · Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

  25. EEG-MFTNet: An Enhanced EEGNet Architecture with Multi-Scale Temporal Convolutions and Transformer Fusion for Cross-Session Motor Imagery Decoding

    Apr 7, 2026Panagiotis Andrikopoulos, Siamak MehrkanoonMI ClassificationBrain-Computer Interfaces

    Department of Information and Computing Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands

  26. CA-TCN: A Causal-Anticausal Temporal Convolutional Network for Direct Auditory Attention Decoding

    Mar 27, 2026Iñigo García-Ugarte, Rubén Eguinoa, Ricardo San Martín +2Neural DecodingTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Department of Science, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), 31006 Pamplona, Spain · BCBL, Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language, 20009 San Sebastián, Spain · Department of Statistics, Computer Sciences and Mathematics, Universidad Pública de Navarra (UPNA), 31006 Pamplona, Spain +2

  27. MRMS-Net and LMRMS-Net: Scalable Multi-Representation Multi-Scale Networks for Time Series Classification

    Mar 14, 2026Celal Alagöz, Mehmet Kurnaz, Farhan AadilTime Series ClassificationMultiscale Time-Series Modeling

    Computer Engineering, Sivas Bilim ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi, Sivas, Türkiye

  28. Detecting and measuring respiratory events in horses during exercise with a microphone: deep learning vs. standard signal processing

    Aug 4, 2025Jeanne I. M. Parmentier, Rhana M. Aarts, Elin Hernlund +2Temporal Convolutional NetworksSound Event Detection

    Utrecht University · University of Twente · Inertia Technology B.V +5

  29. User Trajectory Prediction Unifying Global and Local Temporal Information

    Aug 4, 2025Wei Hao, Bin Chong, Ronghua Ji +1Human Trajectory PredictionTrajectory Prediction

    College of Information and Electrical Engineering, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China · National Engineering Laboratory for Big Data Analysis and Applications, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

  30. Temporal Convolutional Autoencoder for Interference Mitigation in FMCW Radar Altimeters

    May 28, 2025Charles E. Thornton, Jamie Sloop, Samuel Brown +3AutoencodersTemporal Convolutional Networks

    Virginia Tech National Security Institute, Blacksburg, VA, USA · The Boeing Company, Tukwila, WA, USA