Synthetic time series are increasingly used for data augmentation, privacy-preserving data sharing, and downstream model development, yet faithfully reproducing both multi-scale temporal structure and cross-channel dependencies remains challenging. We study multivariate time-series generation through flow matching in the wavelet domain. By operating on multilevel discrete wavelet coefficients rather than directly in the time domain, the model represents coarse structure and progressively finer details at separate scales. Their naturally different variances further induce an implicit coarse-to-fine generative process without requiring an explicit multi-scale schedule. Since the transform acts independently on each channel, we pair it with a channel-token transformer whose attention directly models cross-channel dependencies. Across seven benchmark datasets and four sequence lengths, our method is best or tied on a majority of dataset-metric combinations, with the largest and most consistent improvements in Context-FID and discriminative score.
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This work proposes a HALO that directly maximizes the utility of generations instead of maximizing the log-likelihood of preferences, and suggests that the best loss depends on the inductive biases most appropriate for a given setting, an oft-overlooked consideration.
This state-of-practice investigation was performed using a literature review followed by a multiple-case study approach and presents how inconsistency between managerial strategies and execution can lead to failure by means of a behavioral framework.
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