Probing the Robustness of Time-series Forecasting Models with CounterfacTS

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03508v1
• Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 07:34:47 GMT
• Title: Probing the Robustness of Time-series Forecasting Models with CounterfacTS
• Authors: H{\aa}kon Hanisch Kj{\ae}rnli, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Aida Ashrafi, Gleb Sizov, Helge Langseth and Odd Erik Gundersen
• Abstract summary: We present and publicly release CounterfacTS, a tool to probe the robustness of deep learning models in time-series forecasting tasks. CounterfacTS has a user-friendly interface that allows the user to visualize, compare and quantify time series data and their forecasts.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: A common issue for machine learning models applied to time-series forecasting is the temporal evolution of the data distributions (i.e., concept drift). Because most of the training data does not reflect such changes, the models present poor performance on the new out-of-distribution scenarios and, therefore, the impact of such events cannot be reliably anticipated ahead of time. We present and publicly release CounterfacTS, a tool to probe the robustness of deep learning models in time-series forecasting tasks via counterfactuals. CounterfacTS has a user-friendly interface that allows the user to visualize, compare and quantify time series data and their forecasts, for a number of datasets and deep learning models. Furthermore, the user can apply various transformations to the time series and explore the resulting changes in the forecasts in an interpretable manner. Through example cases, we illustrate how CounterfacTS can be used to i) identify the main features characterizing and differentiating sets of time series, ii) assess how the model performance depends on these characateristics, and iii) guide transformations of the original time series to create counterfactuals with desired properties for training and increasing the forecasting performance in new regions of the data distribution. We discuss the importance of visualizing and considering the location of the data in a projected feature space to transform time-series and create effective counterfactuals for training the models. Overall, CounterfacTS aids at creating counterfactuals to efficiently explore the impact of hypothetical scenarios not covered by the original data in time-series forecasting tasks.

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