UniTST: Effectively Modeling Inter-Series and Intra-Series Dependencies for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Juncheng, Liu, Chenghao, Woo, Gerald, Wang, Yiwei, Hooi, Bryan, Xiong, Caiming, Sahoo, Doyen
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author Liu, Juncheng
Liu, Chenghao
Woo, Gerald
Wang, Yiwei
Hooi, Bryan
Xiong, Caiming
Sahoo, Doyen
author_facet Liu, Juncheng
Liu, Chenghao
Woo, Gerald
Wang, Yiwei
Hooi, Bryan
Xiong, Caiming
Sahoo, Doyen
contents Transformer-based models have emerged as powerful tools for multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF). However, existing Transformer models often fall short of capturing both intricate dependencies across variate and temporal dimensions in MTS data. Some recent models are proposed to separately capture variate and temporal dependencies through either two sequential or parallel attention mechanisms. However, these methods cannot directly and explicitly learn the intricate inter-series and intra-series dependencies. In this work, we first demonstrate that these dependencies are very important as they usually exist in real-world data. To directly model these dependencies, we propose a transformer-based model UniTST containing a unified attention mechanism on the flattened patch tokens. Additionally, we add a dispatcher module which reduces the complexity and makes the model feasible for a potentially large number of variates. Although our proposed model employs a simple architecture, it offers compelling performance as shown in our extensive experiments on several datasets for time series forecasting.
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spellingShingle UniTST: Effectively Modeling Inter-Series and Intra-Series Dependencies for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
Liu, Juncheng
Liu, Chenghao
Woo, Gerald
Wang, Yiwei
Hooi, Bryan
Xiong, Caiming
Sahoo, Doyen
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Transformer-based models have emerged as powerful tools for multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF). However, existing Transformer models often fall short of capturing both intricate dependencies across variate and temporal dimensions in MTS data. Some recent models are proposed to separately capture variate and temporal dependencies through either two sequential or parallel attention mechanisms. However, these methods cannot directly and explicitly learn the intricate inter-series and intra-series dependencies. In this work, we first demonstrate that these dependencies are very important as they usually exist in real-world data. To directly model these dependencies, we propose a transformer-based model UniTST containing a unified attention mechanism on the flattened patch tokens. Additionally, we add a dispatcher module which reduces the complexity and makes the model feasible for a potentially large number of variates. Although our proposed model employs a simple architecture, it offers compelling performance as shown in our extensive experiments on several datasets for time series forecasting.
title UniTST: Effectively Modeling Inter-Series and Intra-Series Dependencies for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04975