Summary of Local Attention Mechanism: Boosting the Transformer Architecture For Long-sequence Time Series Forecasting, by Ignacio Aguilera-martos et al.
Local Attention Mechanism: Boosting the Transformer Architecture for Long-Sequence Time Series Forecasting
by Ignacio Aguilera-Martos, Andrés Herrera-Poyatos, Julián Luengo, Francisco Herrera
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Oct 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 In this paper, researchers explore the application of transformer-based models to time series analysis, specifically for long-horizon forecasting. The study builds upon the success of transformers in natural language processing, demonstrating their potential to excel in time series tasks as well. By leveraging the self-attentive mechanism and parallelization capabilities of transformers, the authors aim to improve performance while reducing computational costs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Transformers are a type of artificial intelligence that have been very good at understanding human language. This has led to many great results in things like chatbots and language translation. In this study, scientists try to use these same ideas to predict what will happen in the future with things like stock prices or weather patterns. They think transformers might be able to do a better job than other types of artificial intelligence at making long-term predictions. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Natural language processing » Time series » Transformer » Translation
