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| author | Zhou, Fan Pan, Chen Ma, Lintao Liu, Yu Zhang, James Zhou, Jun Mei, Hongyuan Lin, Weitao Zhuang, Zi Ning, Wenxin Hu, Yunhua Xue, Siqiao |
| author_facet | Zhou, Fan Pan, Chen Ma, Lintao Liu, Yu Zhang, James Zhou, Jun Mei, Hongyuan Lin, Weitao Zhuang, Zi Ning, Wenxin Hu, Yunhua Xue, Siqiao |
| contents | Time series forecasts of different temporal granularity are widely used in real-world applications, e.g., sales prediction in days and weeks for making different inventory plans. However, these tasks are usually solved separately without ensuring coherence, which is crucial for aligning downstream decisions. Previous works mainly focus on ensuring coherence with some straightforward methods, e.g., aggregation from the forecasts of fine granularity to the coarse ones, and allocation from the coarse granularity to the fine ones. These methods merely take the temporal hierarchical structure to maintain coherence without improving the forecasting accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel granularity message-passing mechanism (GMP) that leverages temporal hierarchy information to improve forecasting performance and also utilizes an adaptive reconciliation (AR) strategy to maintain coherence without performance loss. Furthermore, we introduce an optimization module to achieve task-based targets while adhering to more real-world constraints. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our framework (GMP-AR) achieves superior performances on temporal hierarchical forecasting tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods. In addition, our framework has been successfully applied to a real-world task of payment traffic management in Alipay by integrating with the task-based optimization module. |
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| spellingShingle | GMP-AR: Granularity Message Passing and Adaptive Reconciliation for Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting Zhou, Fan Pan, Chen Ma, Lintao Liu, Yu Zhang, James Zhou, Jun Mei, Hongyuan Lin, Weitao Zhuang, Zi Ning, Wenxin Hu, Yunhua Xue, Siqiao Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Time series forecasts of different temporal granularity are widely used in real-world applications, e.g., sales prediction in days and weeks for making different inventory plans. However, these tasks are usually solved separately without ensuring coherence, which is crucial for aligning downstream decisions. Previous works mainly focus on ensuring coherence with some straightforward methods, e.g., aggregation from the forecasts of fine granularity to the coarse ones, and allocation from the coarse granularity to the fine ones. These methods merely take the temporal hierarchical structure to maintain coherence without improving the forecasting accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel granularity message-passing mechanism (GMP) that leverages temporal hierarchy information to improve forecasting performance and also utilizes an adaptive reconciliation (AR) strategy to maintain coherence without performance loss. Furthermore, we introduce an optimization module to achieve task-based targets while adhering to more real-world constraints. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our framework (GMP-AR) achieves superior performances on temporal hierarchical forecasting tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods. In addition, our framework has been successfully applied to a real-world task of payment traffic management in Alipay by integrating with the task-based optimization module. |
| title | GMP-AR: Granularity Message Passing and Adaptive Reconciliation for Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.12242 |