Accurately forecasting the weather is a key requirement for climate change mitigation. Data-driven methods offer the ability to make more accurate forecasts, but lack interpretability and can be expensive to train and deploy if models are not carefully developed. Here, we make use of two historical climate data sets and tools from machine learning, to accurately predict temperature fields. Furthermore, we are able to use low fidelity models that are cheap to train and evaluate, to selectively avoid expensive high fidelity function evaluations, as well as uncover seasonal variations in predictive power. This allows for an adaptive training strategy for computationally efficient geophysical emulation.
Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；AWS AI Labs（AWS人工智能实验室）
Meta-forecasting is a newly emerging field which combines meta-learning and time series forecasting. The goal of meta-forecasting is to train over a collection of source time series and generalize to new time series one-at-a-time. Previous approaches in meta-forecasting achieve competitive performance, but with the restriction of training a separate model for each sampling frequency. In this work, we investigate meta-forecasting over different sampling frequencies, and introduce a new model, the Continuous Frequency Adapter (CFA), specifically designed to learn frequency-invariant representati…
We consider how to make probability forecasts of binary labels. Our main mathematical result is that for any continuous gambling strategy used for detecting disagreement between the forecasts and the actual labels, there exists a forecasting strategy whose forecasts are ideal as far as this gambling strategy is concerned. A forecasting strategy obtained in this way from a gambling strategy demonstrating a strong law of large numbers is simplified and studied empirically.
The contribution of this work is twofold: (1) We introduce a collection of ensemble methods for time series forecasting to combine predictions from base models. We demonstrate insights on the power of ensemble learning for forecasting, showing experiment results on about 16000 openly available datasets, from M4, M5, M3 competitions, as well as FRED (Federal Reserve Economic Data) datasets. Whereas experiments show that ensembles provide a benefit on forecasting results, there is no clear winning ensemble strategy (plus hyperparameter configuration). Thus, in addition, (2), we propose a meta-le…
Huazhong University of Science and Technology（华中科技大学）
Despite the superiority of convolutional neural networks demonstrated in time series modeling and forecasting, it has not been fully explored on the design of the neural network architecture and the tuning of the hyper-parameters. Inspired by the incremental construction strategy for building a random multilayer perceptron, we propose a novel Error-feedback Stochastic Modeling (ESM) strategy to construct a random Convolutional Neural Network (ESM-CNN) for time series forecasting task, which builds the network architecture adaptively. The ESM strategy suggests that random filters and neurons of…
An accurate prediction of crude oil prices over long future horizons is challenging and of great interest to governments, enterprises, and investors. This paper proposes a revised hybrid model built upon empirical mode decomposition (EMD) based on the feed-forward neural network (FNN) modeling framework incorporating the slope-based method (SBM), which is capable of capturing the complex dynamic of crude oil prices. Three commonly used multi-step-ahead prediction strategies proposed in the literature, including iterated strategy, direct strategy, and MIMO (multiple-input multiple-output) strat…
IIT（意大利理工学院）；UCL（伦敦大学学院）；Amazon Web Services（亚马逊云服务）
While classical time series forecasting considers individual time series in isolation, recent advances based on deep learning showed that jointly learning from a large pool of related time series can boost the forecasting accuracy. However, the accuracy of these methods suffers greatly when modeling out-of-sample time series, significantly limiting their applicability compared to classical forecasting methods. To bridge this gap, we adopt a meta-learning view of the time series forecasting problem. We introduce a novel forecasting method, called Meta Global-Local Auto-Regression (Meta-GLAR), t…
MCformer: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting with Mixed-Channels Transformer
School of Computer Science, University of South China（南华大学计算机学院）；School of Computer Science and Technology, Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学计算机科学与技术学院）；Department of Computer & Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing（北京科技大学计算机与通信工程学院）
We consider a general class of forecasting protocols, called "linear protocols", and discuss several important special cases, including multi-class forecasting. Forecasting is formalized as a game between three players: Reality, whose role is to generate observations; Forecaster, whose goal is to predict the observations; and Skeptic, who tries to make money on any lack of agreement between Forecaster's predictions and the actual observations. Our main mathematical result is that for any continuous strategy for Skeptic in a linear protocol there exists a strategy for Forecaster that does not a…
Kaunas University of Technology（考纳斯理工大学）；Rivile（Rivile私人有限责任公司）
Amounts of historical data collected increase and business intelligence applicability with automatic forecasting of time series are in high demand. While no single time series modeling method is universal to all types of dynamics, forecasting using an ensemble of several methods is often seen as a compromise. Instead of fixing ensemble diversity and size, we propose to predict these aspects adaptively using meta-learning. Meta-learning here considers two separate random forest regression models, built on 390 time-series features, to rank 22 univariate forecasting methods and recommend ensemble…
Heterogeneity-Informed Meta-Parameter Learning for Spatiotemporal Time Series Forecasting
Southern University of Science and Technology（南方科技大学）；The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Hong Kong University of Science and Technology（香港科技大学）；Squirrel AI（松鼠AI）；Jilin University（吉林大学）
Can meta-learning discover generic ways of processing time series (TS) from a diverse dataset so as to greatly improve generalization on new TS coming from different datasets? This work provides positive evidence to this using a broad meta-learning framework which we show subsumes many existing meta-learning algorithms. Our theoretical analysis suggests that residual connections act as a meta-learning adaptation mechanism, generating a subset of task-specific parameters based on a given TS input, thus gradually expanding the expressive power of the architecture on-the-fly. The same mechanism i…
Indian Institute of Technology Madras（印度理工学院马德拉斯分校）
A key problem in location-based modeling and forecasting lies in identifying suitable spatial and temporal resolutions. In particular, judicious spatial partitioning can play a significant role in enhancing the performance of location-based forecasting models. In this work, we investigate two widely used tessellation strategies for partitioning city space, in the context of real-time taxi demand forecasting. Our study compares (i) Geohash tessellation, and (ii) Voronoi tessellation, using two distinct taxi demand datasets, over multiple time scales. For the purpose of comparison, we employ cla…
Boosting MLPs with a Coarsening Strategy for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University（苏州大学计算机科学与技术学院）；School of Biology & Basic Medical Science, Soochow University（苏州大学生物与基础医学院）；School of Physics and Information Technology, Shaanxi Normal University（陕西师范大学物理与信息技术学院）
The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；Toyota Motor Corporation（丰田汽车公司）
Traffic forecasting as a canonical task of multivariate time series forecasting has been a significant research topic in AI community. To address the spatio-temporal heterogeneity and non-stationarity implied in the traffic stream, in this study, we propose Spatio-Temporal Meta-Graph Learning as a novel Graph Structure Learning mechanism on spatio-temporal data. Specifically, we implement this idea into Meta-Graph Convolutional Recurrent Network (MegaCRN) by plugging the Meta-Graph Learner powered by a Meta-Node Bank into GCRN encoder-decoder. We conduct a comprehensive evaluation on two bench…
Southeast University（东南大学）；National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）；University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校）
A deep-learning-based hybrid strategy for short-term load forecasting is presented. The strategy proposes a novel tree-based ensemble method Warm-start Gradient Tree Boosting (WGTB). Current strategies either ensemble submodels of a single type, which fail to take advantage of the statistical strengths of different inference models. Or they simply sum the outputs from completely different inference models, which doesn't maximize the potential of ensemble. Inspired by the bias-variance trade-off, WGTB is proposed and tailored to the great disparity among different inference models on accuracy, …
Institute for Intelligent Systems（智能系统研究所）；University of Johannesburg（约翰内斯堡大学）
Meta-learning, decision fusion, hybrid models, and representation learning are topics of investigation with significant traction in time-series forecasting research. Of these two specific areas have shown state-of-the-art results in forecasting: hybrid meta-learning models such as Exponential Smoothing - Recurrent Neural Network (ES-RNN) and Neural Basis Expansion Analysis (N-BEATS) and feature-based stacking ensembles such as Feature-based FORecast Model Averaging (FFORMA). However, a unified taxonomy for model fusion and an empirical comparison of these hybrid and feature-based stacking ense…
Non-collective Calibrating Strategy for Time Series Forecasting
Ocean University of China（中国海洋大学）；Southwest Jiaotong University（西南交通大学）；JD Intelligent Cities Research（京东智能城市研究院）；JD iCity, JD Technology, China（京东i城，京东科技，中国）；Beijing Key Laboratory of Traffic Data Mining and Embodied Intelligence（北京交通数据挖掘与具身智能重点实验室）
Dalian University of Technology（大连理工大学）；Microsoft Research（微软研究院）；LinkedIn Corporation（领英公司）
User engagement prediction plays a critical role for designing interaction strategies to grow user engagement and increase revenue in online social platforms. Through the in-depth analysis of the real-world data from the world's largest professional social platforms, i.e., LinkedIn, we find that users expose diverse engagement patterns, and a major reason for the differences in user engagement patterns is that users have different intents. That is, people have different intents when using LinkedIn, e.g., applying for jobs, building connections, or checking notifications, which shows quite diff…
Gaussian Process Latent Variable Modeling for Few-shot Time Series Forecasting
Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University（奥尔堡大学计算机科学系）；Department of Computer Science, East China Normal University（华东师范大学计算机科学系）；Huawei Cloud Database Innovation Lab（华为云数据库创新实验室）；University of Electronic Science and Technology of China（电子科技大学）
School of Computer Science, University of Bristol（布里斯托尔大学计算机科学学院）；School of Physics, University of Bristol（布里斯托尔大学物理学院）；School of Engineering Mathematics and Technology, University of Bristol（布里斯托尔大学工程数学与技术学院）
Multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) is a fundamental problem in numerous real-world applications. Recently, Transformer has become the de facto solution for MTSF, especially for the long-term cases. However, except for the one forward operation, the basic configurations in existing MTSF Transformer architectures were barely carefully verified. In this study, we point out that the current tokenization strategy in MTSF Transformer architectures ignores the token uniformity inductive bias of Transformers. Therefore, the vanilla MTSF transformer struggles to capture details in time series …
Dynamic Long-Term Time-Series Forecasting via Meta Transformer Networks
University of South Australia（南澳大学）；University of New South Australia（新南威尔士大学）；A*Star（新加坡科技研究局）；System Research Institute, Polish Academy of Science（波兰科学院系统研究所）
TimeFound: A Foundation Model for Time Series Forecasting
Baidu Research（百度研究院）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)（香港科技大学（广州））
For any business, planning is a continuous process, and typically business-owners focus on making both long-term planning aligned with a particular strategy as well as short-term planning that accommodates the dynamic market situations. An ability to perform an accurate financial forecast is crucial for effective planning. In this paper, we focus on providing an intelligent and efficient solution that will help in forecasting revenue using machine learning algorithms. We experiment with three different revenue forecasting models, and here we provide detailed insights into the methodology and t…
James Cook University（詹姆斯库克大学）；College of Science and Engineering（科学与工程学院）
Spatio-temporal sequence forecasting is one of the fundamental tasks in spatio-temporal data mining. It facilitates many real world applications such as precipitation nowcasting, citywide crowd flow prediction and air pollution forecasting. Recently, a few Seq2Seq based approaches have been proposed, but one of the drawbacks of Seq2Seq models is that, small errors can accumulate quickly along the generated sequence at the inference stage due to the different distributions of training and inference phase. That is because Seq2Seq models minimise single step errors only during training, however t…
Not All News Is Equal: Topic- and Event-Conditional Sentiment from Finetuned LLMs for Aluminum Price Forecasting
International Business School, Zhejiang University（浙江大学国际商学院）；Center for Data Science, Zhejiang University（浙江大学数据科学中心）；Centre for Human Genetics, Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford University（牛津大学纳菲尔德医学部人类遗传学中心）；School of Medicine, Zhejiang University（浙江大学医学院）；Bielefeld School of Business, Hochschule Bielefeld (HSBI) - University of Applied Sciences and Arts（比勒费尔德应用科学大学比勒费尔德商学院）
Learning complex time series forecasting models usually requires a large amount of data, as each model is trained from scratch for each task/data set. Leveraging learning experience with similar datasets is a well-established technique for classification problems called few-shot classification. However, existing approaches cannot be applied to time-series forecasting because i) multivariate time-series datasets have different channels and ii) forecasting is principally different from classification. In this paper we formalize the problem of few-shot forecasting of time-series with heterogeneou…
