## 4 Results
### Ablation Study  
To evaluate the individual contributions of BiCA-LI's architectural components, we conducted an ablation study by selectively disabling or replacing specific modules. The following model variants were tested:  
* BiCA-LI (full): complete model with dual encoders, bidirectional cross-attention, and uncertainty-based dynamic loss weighting.
* No-CrossAttn: removes the cross-attention module; LSTM and Informer outputs are concatenated.
* No-UncertaintyWeight: removes the uncertainty-based weighting; fixed equal weights for regression and classification losses.
* LSTM-only: uses only the LSTM encoder; no fusion or uncertainty weighting.
* Informer-only: uses only the Informer encoder; no fusion or uncertainty weighting.  
The results across three regression metrics and five classification metrics are summarized in Table 5.  
The ablation results presented in Table 5 clearly demonstrate the contribution of each core component within the BiCA-LI architecture. First, the removal of the bidirectional cross-attention mechanism (No-CrossAttn) led to a substantial decline in both regression and classification performance. Specifically, MAE increased from 0.086 to 0.111 (a 29.1% relative increase), while classification F1-score dropped from 99.3% to 94.7%. This confirms that cross-attention fusion significantly enhances the model's ability to integrate and leverage both short-term and long-term temporal features, thereby improving multi-task consistency.  
Figure 8: Training loss curves: (**a**) BiCA-LI; (**b**) LSTM-only; (**c**) Informer-only.  
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**Model Variant** & **MAE** & **MSE** & **RMSE** & **Accuracy** & **Precision** & **Recall** & **F1** & **AUC** \\ \hline BiCA-LI(full) & 0.086 & 0.014 & 0.117 & 99.3\% & 100\% & 84.3\% & 91.5\% & 0.906 \\ No-CrossAttn & 0.111 & 0.024 & 0.154 & 97.8\% & 95.4\% & 75.3\% & 84.2\% & 0.903 \\ No-UncertaintyWeight & 0.095 & 0.018 & 0.134 & 98.3\% & 97.0\% & 65.8\% & 78.4\% & 0.879 \\ LSTM-only & 2.229 & 5.793 & 2.407 & 1.3\% & 1.3\% & 100\% & 2.6\% & 0.271 \\ Informer-only & 0.134 & 0.029 & 0.169 & 99.0\% & 100\% & 76.9\% & 86.9\% & 0.895 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
\end{table}
Table 5: Ablation study of BiCA-LI model components.  
Second, when the uncertainty-based dynamic loss weighting was disabled (No-UncertaintyWeight), performance also deteriorated across all metrics. Although the degradation was less severe than in the absence of cross-attention, MAE increased by 10.5%, and F1-score decreased by nearly 3 percentage points. This highlights the role of adaptive weighting in maintaining task balance and improving generalization, particularly under multi-objective training.  
Finally, the single-encoder baselines (LSTM-only and Informer-only) further underscore the necessity of the dual encoder design. While the Informer-only design achieved acceptable classification results (F1-score: 95.8%), it suffered in regression (MAE: 0.134), indicating limited short-range modeling capacity. Conversely, LSTM-only failed on both fronts, with MAE soaring to 2.229 and F1-score plummeting below 1%, revealing that a single short-term encoder is insufficient for this complex task. The dual-path temporal encoding used in BiCA-LI enables complementary modeling of local and global dependencies, resulting in consistently superior performance across both tasks.  
In summary, the ablation study empirically validates that all three components--dual encoders, bidirectional cross-attention fusion, and uncertainty-aware loss weighting--are critical to the success of the proposed architecture.