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This is a highly challenging task because it requires considering both the complex frequency-domain and time-domain information in long-term time series simultaneously. However, existing work only considers potential patterns in a single domain (e.g., time or frequency domain), whereas a large amount of time-frequency domain information exists in real-world LTSFs. In this paper, we propose a multi-scale hierarchical network (MHNet) based on time-frequency decomposition to solve the above problem. MHNet first introduces a multi-scale hierarchical representation, extracting and learning features of time series in the time domain, and gradually builds up a global understanding and representation of the time series at different time scales, enabling the model to process time series over lengthy periods of time with lower computational complexity. 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