Summary of Timeraf: Retrieval-augmented Foundation Model For Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting, by Huanyu Zhang et al.
TimeRAF: Retrieval-Augmented Foundation model for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting
by Huanyu Zhang, Chang Xu, Yi-Fan Zhang, Zhang Zhang, Liang Wang, Jiang Bian, Tieniu Tan
First submitted to arxiv on: 30 Dec 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 TimeRAF, a Retrieval-Augmented Forecasting model that enhances zero-shot time series forecasting through retrieval-augmented techniques. The authors propose customized time series knowledge bases tailored to specific forecasting tasks and an end-to-end learnable retriever to extract valuable information from these bases. Additionally, they introduce Channel Prompting for knowledge integration, which effectively extracts relevant information along the channel dimension. The paper demonstrates the effectiveness of TimeRAF, showing significant improvement across various domains and datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine a way to predict what will happen next in a sequence of numbers, like stock prices or weather patterns. This is called time series forecasting, and it’s really important for many industries. The authors of this paper have come up with a new approach that uses big models and extra information from the internet to make better predictions. They created a special kind of model called TimeRAF that can learn from previous data and even use information from other places to help make better predictions. They tested it on different types of data and found that it worked really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Prompting » Time series » Zero shot
