@article{Le_V-2024_171541,
title = {Learning evolving relations for multivariate time series forecasting},
author = {Le, V. and Tieu, N. and Tran, T. and Venkatesh, S. and Ramzan, N. and Nguyen-Thai, B.},
month = {mar},
year = {2024},
abstract = {Multivariate time series forecasting is essential in various fields, including healthcare and traffic management, but it is a challenging task due to the strong dynamics in both intra-channel relations (temporal patterns within individual variables) and inter-channel relations (the relationships between variables), which can evolve over time with abrupt changes. This paper proposes ERAN (Evolving Relational Attention Network), a framework for multivariate time series forecasting, that is capable to capture such dynamics of these relations. On the one hand, ERAN represents inter-channel relations with a graph which evolves over time, modeled using a recurrent neural network. On the other hand, ERAN represents the intra-channel relations using a temporal attentional convolution, which captures the local temporal dependencies adaptively with the input data. The elvoving graph structure and the temporal attentional convolution are intergrated in a unified model to capture both types of relations. The model is experimented on a large number of real-life datasets including traffic flows, energy consumption, and COVID-19 transmission data. The experimental results show a significant improvement over the state-of-the-art methods in multivariate time series forecasting particularly for non-stationary data.},
journal = {Applied Intelligence},
publisher = {Springer Nature},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-023-05220-0},
}
