Paper ID | MLSP-28.4 | ||
Paper Title | Two-Stage Framework for Seasonal Time Series Forecasting | ||
Authors | Qingyang Xu, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States; Qingsong Wen, Liang Sun, Alibaba Group, United States | ||
Session | MLSP-28: ML and Time Series | ||
Location | Gather.Town | ||
Session Time: | Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation Time: | Thursday, 10 June, 14:00 - 14:45 | ||
Presentation | Poster | ||
Topic | Machine Learning for Signal Processing: [MLR-APPL] Applications of machine learning | ||
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Abstract | Seasonal time series Forecasting remains a challenging problem due to the long-term dependency from seasonality. In this paper, we propose a two-stage framework to forecast univariate seasonal time series. The first stage explicitly learns the long-range time series structure in a time window beyond the forecast horizon. By incorporating the learned long-range structure, the second stage can enhance the prediction accuracy in the forecast horizon. In both stages, we integrate the auto-regressive model with neural networks to capture both linear and non-linear characteristics in time series. Our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on M4 Competition Hourly datasets. In particular, we show that incorporating the intermediate results generated in the first stage to existing forecast models can effectively enhance their prediction performance. |