Combating Distribution Shift for Accurate Time Series Forecasting via Hypernetworks
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2023Type
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Abstract
Time series forecasting has widespread applications in urban life ranging from air quality monitoring to traffic analysis. However, accurate time series forecasting is challenging because real-world time series suffer from the distribution shift problem, where their statistical properties change over time. Despite extensive solutions to distribution shifts in domain adaptation or generalization, they fail to function effectively in unknown, constantly-changing distribution shifts, which are common in time series. In this paper, we propose Hyper Time Series Forecasting (HTSF), a hypernetwork-based framework for accurate time series forecasting under distribution shift. HTSF jointly learns the time-varying distributions and the corresponding forecasting models in an end-to-end fashion. Specifically, HTSF exploits the hyper layers to learn the best characterization of the distribution shifts, generating the model parameters for the main layers to make accurate predictions. We implement HTSF as an extensible framework that can incorporate diverse time series forecasting models such as RNNs. Extensive experiments on 7 benchmarks demonstrate that HTSF achieves state-of-theart performances. Show more
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2022 IEEE 28th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS)Pages / Article No.
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IEEEEvent
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hypernetworks; time series forecasting; distribution shiftOrganisational unit
03429 - Thiele, Lothar (emeritus) / Thiele, Lothar (emeritus)
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