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The FMT framework decomposes time series data into distinct frequency-modulated signals, utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture temporal frequencies. A transformer encoder\u2013decoder architecture then predicts and captures multi-scale temporal dependencies and makes accurate predictions. The novelty of the proposed approach lies in decomposing the input time series into Intrinsic Mode Functions (IMFs) and integrating the frequency-specific components into a Transformer architecture via entropy-based feature selection. The FMT framework significantly reduces Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) and Mean Absolute Error (MAE) by approximately 50% and 65%, respectively, compared to conventional methods. Additionally, it achieves an 8% increase in the R2 score, demonstrating enhanced predictive accuracy. 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