Multivariate Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Correlated Errors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01000v4
• Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2024 21:38:23 GMT
• Title: Multivariate Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting with Correlated Errors
• Authors: Vincent Zhihao Zheng, Lijun Sun,
• Abstract summary: We introduce a plug-and-play method that learns the covariance structure of errors over multiple steps for autoregressive models. We evaluate our method on probabilistic models built on RNNs and Transformer architectures.
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• Abstract: Accurately modeling the correlation structure of errors is critical for reliable uncertainty quantification in probabilistic time series forecasting. While recent deep learning models for multivariate time series have developed efficient parameterizations for time-varying contemporaneous covariance, but they often assume temporal independence of errors for simplicity. However, real-world data often exhibit significant error autocorrelation and cross-lag correlation due to factors such as missing covariates. In this paper, we introduce a plug-and-play method that learns the covariance structure of errors over multiple steps for autoregressive models with Gaussian-distributed errors. To ensure scalable inference and computational efficiency, we model the contemporaneous covariance using a low-rank-plus-diagonal parameterization and capture cross-covariance through a group of independent latent temporal processes. The learned covariance matrix is then used to calibrate predictions based on observed residuals. We evaluate our method on probabilistic models built on RNNs and Transformer architectures, and the results confirm the effectiveness of our approach in improving predictive accuracy and uncertainty quantification without significantly increasing the parameter size.

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