Summary of Advancing Long-term Multi-energy Load Forecasting with Patchformer: a Patch and Transformer-based Approach, by Qiuyi Hong et al.
Advancing Long-Term Multi-Energy Load Forecasting with Patchformer: A Patch and Transformer-Based Approach
by Qiuyi Hong, Fanlin Meng, Felipe Maldonado
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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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 Patchformer, a novel model that combines patch embedding with encoder-decoder Transformer-based architectures for long-term multi-energy load forecasting. This addresses limitations in existing Transformer-based models, which struggle with intricate temporal patterns. Patchformer uses patch embedding to predict multivariate time-series data by separating it into multiple univariate data and segmenting each into multiple patches, enhancing its ability to capture local and global semantic dependencies. The model achieves better prediction accuracy on the Multi-Energy dataset and other benchmark datasets compared to existing models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Patchformer is a new way of forecasting energy usage that works well for long-term predictions. It uses a special kind of AI called patch embedding, which helps it understand complex patterns in data. This means Patchformer can make more accurate predictions than other models. The paper shows how well Patchformer performs on different datasets and how it’s able to handle complex relationships between different types of energy usage. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Embedding » Encoder decoder » Time series » Transformer
