IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem
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| author | Adiga, Aniruddha Chou, Jingyuan Chiranth, Anshul Lewis, Bryan Bento, Ana I. Truelove, Shaun Fox, Geoffrey Marathe, Madhav Hochheiser, Harry Venkatramanan, Srini |
| author_facet | Adiga, Aniruddha Chou, Jingyuan Chiranth, Anshul Lewis, Bryan Bento, Ana I. Truelove, Shaun Fox, Geoffrey Marathe, Madhav Hochheiser, Harry Venkatramanan, Srini |
| contents | Epidemic forecasting has become an integral part of real-time infectious disease outbreak response. While collaborative ensembles composed of statistical and machine learning models have become the norm for real-time forecasting, standardized benchmark datasets for evaluating such methods are lacking. Further, there is limited understanding on performance of these methods for novel outbreaks with limited historical data. In this paper, we propose IDOBE, a curated collection of epidemiological time series focused on outbreak forecasting. IDOBE compiles from multiple data repositories spanning over a century of surveillance and across U.S. states and global locations. We perform derivative-based segmentation to generate over 10,000 outbreaks covering multiple outcomes such as cases and hospitalizations for 13 diseases. We consider a variety of information-theoretic and distributional measures to quantify the epidemiological diversity of the dataset. Finally, we perform multi-horizon short-term forecasting (1- to 4-week-ahead) through the progression of the outbreak using 11 baseline models and report on their performance. In addition to standard metrics such as NMSE and MAPE for point forecasts, we include probabilistic scoring rules such as Normalized Weighted Interval Score (NWIS) to quantify the performance. We find that MLP-based methods have the most robust performance, with statistical methods having a slight edge during the pre-peak phase. IDOBE dataset along with baselines are released publicly on https://github.com/NSSAC/IDOBE to enable standardized, reproducible benchmarking of outbreak forecasting methods. |
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| spellingShingle | IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem Adiga, Aniruddha Chou, Jingyuan Chiranth, Anshul Lewis, Bryan Bento, Ana I. Truelove, Shaun Fox, Geoffrey Marathe, Madhav Hochheiser, Harry Venkatramanan, Srini Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Populations and Evolution Epidemic forecasting has become an integral part of real-time infectious disease outbreak response. While collaborative ensembles composed of statistical and machine learning models have become the norm for real-time forecasting, standardized benchmark datasets for evaluating such methods are lacking. Further, there is limited understanding on performance of these methods for novel outbreaks with limited historical data. In this paper, we propose IDOBE, a curated collection of epidemiological time series focused on outbreak forecasting. IDOBE compiles from multiple data repositories spanning over a century of surveillance and across U.S. states and global locations. We perform derivative-based segmentation to generate over 10,000 outbreaks covering multiple outcomes such as cases and hospitalizations for 13 diseases. We consider a variety of information-theoretic and distributional measures to quantify the epidemiological diversity of the dataset. Finally, we perform multi-horizon short-term forecasting (1- to 4-week-ahead) through the progression of the outbreak using 11 baseline models and report on their performance. In addition to standard metrics such as NMSE and MAPE for point forecasts, we include probabilistic scoring rules such as Normalized Weighted Interval Score (NWIS) to quantify the performance. We find that MLP-based methods have the most robust performance, with statistical methods having a slight edge during the pre-peak phase. IDOBE dataset along with baselines are released publicly on https://github.com/NSSAC/IDOBE to enable standardized, reproducible benchmarking of outbreak forecasting methods. |
| title | IDOBE: Infectious Disease Outbreak forecasting Benchmark Ecosystem |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Populations and Evolution |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.18521 |