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CEDAR: Controlled and Event-Driven Demand Forecasting via Residual Decomposition

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 26, 2026 · UTC

Forecasting in large-scale e-commerce marketplaces is increasingly required to support planning: merchants need to evaluate sales outcomes under future action sequences such as budget schedules, rather than passively predicting what happens next. However, most existing time series forecasting (TSF) approaches remain inherently passive. Even when incorporating operational decisions as auxiliary covariates, they typically optimize for correlation-based extrapolation under historical policies. This design suffers from autoregressive inertia and conflates endogenous market evolution with decision-

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