Deep COVID-19 Forecasting for Multiple States with Data Augmentation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01155v1
• Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 15:16:13 GMT
• Title: Deep COVID-19 Forecasting for Multiple States with Data Augmentation
• Authors: Chung Yan Fong and Dit-Yan Yeung
• Abstract summary: We propose a deep learning approach to forecasting state-level COVID-19 trends of weekly cumulative death in the United States (US) and incident cases in Germany. This approach includes a transformer model, an ensemble method, and a data augmentation technique for time series. Our model has achieved some of the best state-level results on the COVID-19 Forecast Hub for the US and for Germany.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this work, we propose a deep learning approach to forecasting state-level COVID-19 trends of weekly cumulative death in the United States (US) and incident cases in Germany. This approach includes a transformer model, an ensemble method, and a data augmentation technique for time series. We arrange the inputs of the transformer in such a way that predictions for different states can attend to the trends of the others. To overcome the issue of scarcity of training data for this COVID-19 pandemic, we have developed a novel data augmentation technique to generate useful data for training. More importantly, the generated data can also be used for model validation. As such, it has a two-fold advantage: 1) more actual observations can be used for training, and 2) the model can be validated on data which has distribution closer to the expected situation. Our model has achieved some of the best state-level results on the COVID-19 Forecast Hub for the US and for Germany.

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