Authors: Xixi Li, Fotios Petropoulos, Yanfei Kang Abstract: Time series forecasting plays an increasingly important role in modern business decisions. In today’s data-rich environment, people often aim to choose the optimal forecasting model for their data. However, identifying the optimal model often requires professional knowledge and experience, making accurate forecasting a challenging task. To mitigate the importance…

Authors: Xixi Li#, Yun Bai#, Yanfei Kang* Abstract: One of the most significant differences of M5 over previous forecasting competitions is that it was held on Kaggle, an online platform of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. Kaggle provides a gathering place, or virtual community, for web users who are interested in the M5 competition. Users…

Authors: Evangelos Theodorou#, Shengjie Wang#, Yanfei Kang*, Evangelos Spiliotis, Spyros Makridakis, Vassilios Assimakopoulos Abstract: 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. However, whether…

Authors: Xixi Li, Yun Bai, Yanfei Kang Abstract: One of the most significant differences of M5 over previous forecasting competitions is that it was held on Kaggle, an online community of data scientists and machine learning practitioners. On the Kaggle platform, people can form virtual communities such as online notebooks and discussions to discuss their models, choice…

The DeepTCN paper is accepted in Neurocomputing. Yitian Chen, Yanfei Kang, Yixiong Chen and Zizhuo Wang. (2020). Probabilistic Forecasting with Temporal Convolutional Neural Network. Neurocomputing 399C (2020) pp. 491-501. [ Online | Working Paper | Software] We present a probabilistic forecasting framework based on convolutional neural network (CNN) for multiple related time series forecasting. The framework can be…