ExoTST: Exogenous-Aware Temporal Sequence Transformer for Time Series Prediction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.12184v1
• Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 03:04:37 GMT
• Title: ExoTST: Exogenous-Aware Temporal Sequence Transformer for Time Series Prediction
• Authors: Kshitij Tayal, Arvind Renganathan, Xiaowei Jia, Vipin Kumar, Dan Lu,
• Abstract summary: We propose ExoTST, a transformer-based framework for time series prediction. To integrate past and current variables, ExoTST introduces a novel cross-temporal modality fusion module. Experiments on real-world carbon flux datasets and time series benchmarks demonstrate ExoTST's superior performance.
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• Abstract: Accurate long-term predictions are the foundations for many machine learning applications and decision-making processes. Traditional time series approaches for prediction often focus on either autoregressive modeling, which relies solely on past observations of the target ``endogenous variables'', or forward modeling, which considers only current covariate drivers ``exogenous variables''. However, effectively integrating past endogenous and past exogenous with current exogenous variables remains a significant challenge. In this paper, we propose ExoTST, a novel transformer-based framework that effectively incorporates current exogenous variables alongside past context for improved time series prediction. To integrate exogenous information efficiently, ExoTST leverages the strengths of attention mechanisms and introduces a novel cross-temporal modality fusion module. This module enables the model to jointly learn from both past and current exogenous series, treating them as distinct modalities. By considering these series separately, ExoTST provides robustness and flexibility in handling data uncertainties that arise from the inherent distribution shift between historical and current exogenous variables. Extensive experiments on real-world carbon flux datasets and time series benchmarks demonstrate ExoTST's superior performance compared to state-of-the-art baselines, with improvements of up to 10\% in prediction accuracy. Moreover, ExoTST exhibits strong robustness against missing values and noise in exogenous drivers, maintaining consistent performance in real-world situations where these imperfections are common.

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