Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · November 4, 2026
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Long-term time-series forecasting supports decisions in energy, transportation, and other applications where reliable predictions are needed beyond the observed data. Although forecasting research has advanced model architectures, fixed activation configurations provide limited guidance on how activation choices should vary across datasets and prediction horizons. This study aims to establish when task-specific activation choices improve forecasting accuracy and how previous experiments can guide the selection of suitable configurations for new tasks. We develop a calibrated selection policy that learns a reliable default from prior experiments, adapts the activation function and its location to each task, and retains the default when evidence for a change is insufficient. In an evaluation supported by 1,225 Informer training runs across 17 dataset variants and 51 forecasting tasks, the policy reduces mean squared error by 7.86% on average relative to the conventional fixed-activation baseline and improves 72.55% of tasks. These findings establish activation choice and placement as practical opportunities for improving existing forecasting models and show how accumulated experimental evidence can guide configuration decisions without repeating an exhaustive search for every task.