1 code implementation • 21 Nov 2023 • Guanyu Zhang, Feng Li, Yanfei Kang
As the popularity of hierarchical point forecast reconciliation methods increases, there is a growing interest in probabilistic forecast reconciliation.
no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Yinuo Ren, Feng Li, Yanfei Kang, Jue Wang
Forecast combination integrates information from various sources by consolidating multiple forecast results from the target time series.
1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2023 • Li Li, Feng Li, Yanfei Kang
In economics and many other forecasting domains, the real world problems are too complex for a single model that assumes a specific data generation process.
no code implementations • 21 Dec 2022 • Christoph Bergmeir, Frits de Nijs, Abishek Sriramulu, Mahdi Abolghasemi, Richard Bean, John Betts, Quang Bui, Nam Trong Dinh, Nils Einecke, Rasul Esmaeilbeigi, Scott Ferraro, Priya Galketiya, Evgenii Genov, Robert Glasgow, Rakshitha Godahewa, Yanfei Kang, Steffen Limmer, Luis Magdalena, Pablo Montero-Manso, Daniel Peralta, Yogesh Pipada Sunil Kumar, Alejandro Rosales-Pérez, Julian Ruddick, Akylas Stratigakos, Peter Stuckey, Guido Tack, Isaac Triguero, Rui Yuan
As both forecasting and optimization are difficult problems in their own right, relatively few research has been done in this area.
no code implementations • 9 May 2022 • Xiaoqian Wang, Rob J Hyndman, Feng Li, Yanfei Kang
Forecast combinations have flourished remarkably in the forecasting community and, in recent years, have become part of the mainstream of forecasting research and activities.
1 code implementation • 20 Apr 2022 • Bohan Zhang, Yanfei Kang, Anastasios Panagiotelis, Feng Li
In this paper, we formulate reconciliation methodology that keeps forecasts of a pre-specified subset of variables unchanged or "immutable".
no code implementations • 4 Aug 2021 • Li Li, Yanfei Kang, Feng Li
In this work, we propose a novel framework for density forecast combination by constructing time-varying weights based on time series features, which is called Feature-based Bayesian Forecasting Model Averaging (FEBAMA).
1 code implementation • 6 Apr 2021 • Yun Bai, Ganglin Tian, Yanfei Kang, Suling Jia
It is also possible to improve the NCL ensemble with a regularization term in the objective function.
no code implementations • 4 Mar 2021 • Evangelos Theodorou, Shengjie Wang, Yanfei Kang, Evangelos Spiliotis, Spyros Makridakis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos
The main objective of the M5 competition, which focused on forecasting the hierarchical unit sales of Walmart, was to evaluate the accuracy and uncertainty of forecasting methods in the field in order to identify best practices and highlight their practical implications.
no code implementations • 28 Feb 2021 • Xixi Li, Yun Bai, Yanfei Kang
This paper aims to study the social influence of virtual community on user behaviors in the M5 competition.
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Yanfei Kang, Wei Cao, Fotios Petropoulos, Feng Li
In this work, we suggest a change of focus from the historical data to the produced forecasts to extract features.
no code implementations • 6 Aug 2020 • Kasun Bandara, Hansika Hewamalage, Yuan-Hao Liu, Yanfei Kang, Christoph Bergmeir
Forecasting models that are trained across sets of many time series, known as Global Forecasting Models (GFM), have shown recently promising results in forecasting competitions and real-world applications, outperforming many state-of-the-art univariate forecasting techniques.
1 code implementation • 19 Jul 2020 • Xiaoqian Wang, Yanfei Kang, Rob J. Hyndman, Feng Li
Providing forecasts for ultra-long time series plays a vital role in various activities, such as investment decisions, industrial production arrangements, and farm management.
Applications Computation
2 code implementations • 31 Aug 2019 • Yanfei Kang, Evangelos Spiliotis, Fotios Petropoulos, Nikolaos Athiniotis, Feng Li, Vassilios Assimakopoulos
Instead of extrapolating, the future paths of the similar reference series are aggregated and serve as the basis for the forecasts of the target series.
Methodology Applications
1 code implementation • 30 Aug 2019 • Thiyanga S. Talagala, Feng Li, Yanfei Kang
We model the forecast error as a function of time series features calculated from the historical time series with an efficient Bayesian multivariate surface regression approach.
Applications
2 code implementations • 8 Aug 2019 • Xiaoqian Wang, Yanfei Kang, Fotios Petropoulos, Feng Li
In the training part, we use a collection of time series to train a model to explore how time series features affect the interval forecasting accuracy of different forecasting methods, which makes our proposed framework interpretable in terms of the contribution of each feature to the models' uncertainty prediction.
Methodology Applications Computation
4 code implementations • 11 Jun 2019 • Yitian Chen, Yanfei Kang, Yixiong Chen, Zizhuo Wang
We present a probabilistic forecasting framework based on convolutional neural network for multiple related time series forecasting.
Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting +2
3 code implementations • 17 Apr 2019 • Xixi Li, Yanfei Kang, Feng Li
Recently, the use of time series features for forecast model averaging has been an emerging research focus in the forecasting community.
5 code implementations • 7 Mar 2019 • Yanfei Kang, Rob J. Hyndman, Feng Li
The explosion of time series data in recent years has brought a flourish of new time series analysis methods, for forecasting, clustering, classification and other tasks.