Summary of Timer-xl: Long-context Transformers For Unified Time Series Forecasting, by Yong Liu et al.
Timer-XL: Long-Context Transformers for Unified Time Series Forecasting
by Yong Liu, Guo Qin, Xiangdong Huang, Jianmin Wang, Mingsheng Long
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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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 presents Timer-XL, a causal Transformer model for unified time series forecasting. It generalizes next token prediction to multivariate next token prediction, formulating various forecasting tasks as long-context prediction problems. The model uses decoder-only Transformers to capture causal dependencies from varying-length contexts and predicts on univariate and multivariate time series with complex dynamics and correlations. Timer-XL achieves state-of-the-art performance across task-specific forecasting benchmarks through a unified approach, making it a promising architecture for pre-trained time series models. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Timer-XL is a new way to forecast time series data. It’s like a superpower that can predict many different types of data at the same time! The model uses something called Transformers to look at patterns in the data and make predictions. It’s really good at predicting things that happen in the future, even if they’re very complicated or involve lots of variables. The creators of Timer-XL tested it on many different kinds of data and it did really well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Decoder » Time series » Token » Transformer
