Relational Conformal Prediction for Correlated Time Series

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Auteurs principaux: Cini, Andrea, Jenkins, Alexander, Mandic, Danilo, Alippi, Cesare, Bianchi, Filippo Maria
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author Cini, Andrea
Jenkins, Alexander
Mandic, Danilo
Alippi, Cesare
Bianchi, Filippo Maria
author_facet Cini, Andrea
Jenkins, Alexander
Mandic, Danilo
Alippi, Cesare
Bianchi, Filippo Maria
contents We address the problem of uncertainty quantification in time series forecasting by exploiting observations at correlated sequences. Relational deep learning methods leveraging graph representations are among the most effective tools for obtaining point estimates from spatiotemporal data and correlated time series. However, the problem of exploiting relational structures to estimate the uncertainty of such predictions has been largely overlooked in the same context. To this end, we propose a novel distribution-free approach based on the conformal prediction framework and quantile regression. Despite the recent applications of conformal prediction to sequential data, existing methods operate independently on each target time series and do not account for relationships among them when constructing the prediction interval. We fill this void by introducing a novel conformal prediction method based on graph deep learning operators. Our approach, named Conformal Relational Prediction (CoRel), does not require the relational structure (graph) to be known a priori and can be applied on top of any pre-trained predictor. Additionally, CoRel includes an adaptive component to handle non-exchangeable data and changes in the input time series. Our approach provides accurate coverage and achieves state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification in relevant benchmarks.
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spellingShingle Relational Conformal Prediction for Correlated Time Series
Cini, Andrea
Jenkins, Alexander
Mandic, Danilo
Alippi, Cesare
Bianchi, Filippo Maria
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
We address the problem of uncertainty quantification in time series forecasting by exploiting observations at correlated sequences. Relational deep learning methods leveraging graph representations are among the most effective tools for obtaining point estimates from spatiotemporal data and correlated time series. However, the problem of exploiting relational structures to estimate the uncertainty of such predictions has been largely overlooked in the same context. To this end, we propose a novel distribution-free approach based on the conformal prediction framework and quantile regression. Despite the recent applications of conformal prediction to sequential data, existing methods operate independently on each target time series and do not account for relationships among them when constructing the prediction interval. We fill this void by introducing a novel conformal prediction method based on graph deep learning operators. Our approach, named Conformal Relational Prediction (CoRel), does not require the relational structure (graph) to be known a priori and can be applied on top of any pre-trained predictor. Additionally, CoRel includes an adaptive component to handle non-exchangeable data and changes in the input time series. Our approach provides accurate coverage and achieves state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification in relevant benchmarks.
title Relational Conformal Prediction for Correlated Time Series
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09443