Summary of Cmamba: Channel Correlation Enhanced State Space Models For Multivariate Time Series Forecasting, by Chaolv Zeng et al.
CMamba: Channel Correlation Enhanced State Space Models for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting
by Chaolv Zeng, Zhanyu Liu, Guanjie Zheng, Linghe Kong
First submitted to arxiv on: 8 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces a novel deep learning architecture for multivariate time series forecasting, specifically designed to handle complex temporal and cross-channel dependencies. The vanilla Mamba state space model has shown robust sequence and feature mixing capabilities but lacks adequate handling of cross-channel dependencies. Recent findings highlight the importance of capturing these dependencies using self-attention mechanisms. However, simpler methods like MLP may degrade performance due to a lack of data dependence and global receptive field. To address this, the authors propose CMamba, a refined Mamba variant that incorporates a modified temporal dependencies modeling module, a global data-dependent MLP for cross-channel dependency capture, and a Channel Mixup mechanism to prevent overfitting. Experimental results on seven real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of CMamba in improving forecasting performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about a new way to predict what will happen next in a series of connected numbers (called time series). Right now, there are many different models that can do this, but they often struggle with capturing connections between different parts of the data. The authors think that a special kind of attention mechanism can really help with this. They also think that some simpler methods might actually make things worse because they don’t take into account all the connections in the data. To fix this, they propose a new model called CMamba that combines several techniques to better capture these dependencies and improve forecasting performance. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Deep learning » Overfitting » Self attention » Time series
