Distributional Drift Adaptation with Temporal Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00654v4
• Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 06:58:50 GMT
• Title: Distributional Drift Adaptation with Temporal Conditional Variational Autoencoder for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
• Authors: Hui He, Qi Zhang, Kun Yi, Kaize Shi, Zhendong Niu, Longbing Cao,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel framework temporal conditional variational autoencoder (TCVAE) to model the dynamic distributional dependencies over time. The TCVAE infers the dependencies as a temporal conditional distribution to leverage latent variables. We show the TCVAE's superior robustness and effectiveness over the state-of-the-art MTS forecasting baselines.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Due to the non-stationary nature, the distribution of real-world multivariate time series (MTS) changes over time, which is known as distribution drift. Most existing MTS forecasting models greatly suffer from distribution drift and degrade the forecasting performance over time. Existing methods address distribution drift via adapting to the latest arrived data or self-correcting per the meta knowledge derived from future data. Despite their great success in MTS forecasting, these methods hardly capture the intrinsic distribution changes, especially from a distributional perspective. Accordingly, we propose a novel framework temporal conditional variational autoencoder (TCVAE) to model the dynamic distributional dependencies over time between historical observations and future data in MTSs and infer the dependencies as a temporal conditional distribution to leverage latent variables. Specifically, a novel temporal Hawkes attention mechanism represents temporal factors subsequently fed into feed-forward networks to estimate the prior Gaussian distribution of latent variables. The representation of temporal factors further dynamically adjusts the structures of Transformer-based encoder and decoder to distribution changes by leveraging a gated attention mechanism. Moreover, we introduce conditional continuous normalization flow to transform the prior Gaussian to a complex and form-free distribution to facilitate flexible inference of the temporal conditional distribution. Extensive experiments conducted on six real-world MTS datasets demonstrate the TCVAE's superior robustness and effectiveness over the state-of-the-art MTS forecasting baselines. We further illustrate the TCVAE applicability through multifaceted case studies and visualization in real-world scenarios.

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