A Lightweight Multi-View Approach to Short-Term Load Forecasting

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Autori principali: Guité-Vinet, Julien, Massé, Alexandre Blondin, Beaudry, Éric
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Pubblicazione: 2026
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author Guité-Vinet, Julien
Massé, Alexandre Blondin
Beaudry, Éric
author_facet Guité-Vinet, Julien
Massé, Alexandre Blondin
Beaudry, Éric
contents Time series forecasting is a critical task across domains such as energy, finance, and meteorology, where accurate predictions enable informed decision-making. While transformer-based and large-parameter models have recently achieved state-of-the-art results, their complexity can lead to overfitting and unstable forecasts, especially when older data points become less relevant. In this paper, we propose a lightweight multi-view approach to short-term load forecasting that leverages single-value embeddings and a scaled time-range input to capture temporally relevant features efficiently. We introduce an embedding dropout mechanism to prevent over-reliance on specific features and enhance interpretability. Our method achieves competitive performance with significantly fewer parameters, demonstrating robustness across multiple datasets, including scenarios with noisy or sparse data, and provides insights into the contributions of individual features to the forecast.
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spellingShingle A Lightweight Multi-View Approach to Short-Term Load Forecasting
Guité-Vinet, Julien
Massé, Alexandre Blondin
Beaudry, Éric
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Time series forecasting is a critical task across domains such as energy, finance, and meteorology, where accurate predictions enable informed decision-making. While transformer-based and large-parameter models have recently achieved state-of-the-art results, their complexity can lead to overfitting and unstable forecasts, especially when older data points become less relevant. In this paper, we propose a lightweight multi-view approach to short-term load forecasting that leverages single-value embeddings and a scaled time-range input to capture temporally relevant features efficiently. We introduce an embedding dropout mechanism to prevent over-reliance on specific features and enhance interpretability. Our method achieves competitive performance with significantly fewer parameters, demonstrating robustness across multiple datasets, including scenarios with noisy or sparse data, and provides insights into the contributions of individual features to the forecast.
title A Lightweight Multi-View Approach to Short-Term Load Forecasting
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.09220