Deep Transformer Models for Time Series Forecasting: The Influenza Prevalence Case
In this paper, we present a new approach to time series forecasting. Time series data are prevalent in many scientific and engineering disciplines. Time series forecasting is a crucial task in modeling time series data, and is an important area of machine learning. In this work we developed a novel method that employs Transformer based machine learning models to forecast time series data. This approach works by leveraging self attention mechanisms to learn complex patterns and dynamics from time series data. Moreover, it is a generic framework and can be applied to univariate and multivariate time series data, as well as time series embeddings. Using influenza like illness (ILI) forecasting as a case study, we show that the forecasting results produced by our approach are favorably comparable to the state of the art.
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