Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting

A time series contain a large amount of information suitable for forecasting. Classical statistical and recent deep learning models have been widely used in a variety of forecasting applications. During the training data preparation stage, most models collect samples by sliding a fixed-sized window...

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Main Authors: Il-Seok Oh, Jin-Seon Lee
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2022-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9831778/
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description A time series contain a large amount of information suitable for forecasting. Classical statistical and recent deep learning models have been widely used in a variety of forecasting applications. During the training data preparation stage, most models collect samples by sliding a fixed-sized window over the time axis of the input time series. We refer to this conventional method as &#x201C;sparse sampling&#x201D; because it cannot extract sufficient samples because it ignores another important axis representing the window size. In this study, a dense sampling method is proposed that extends the sampling space from one to two dimensions. The new space consists of time and window axes. Dense sampling provides several desirable effects, such as a larger training dataset, an intra-model ensemble, model-agnosticism, and an easier setting of the optimal window. The experiments were conducted using four real datasets: Bitcoin price, influenza-like illness, household electric power consumption, and wind speed. The mean absolute percentage error was measured extensively in terms of varying window sizes, horizons, and lengths of time series. The resulting data showed that dense sampling significantly and consistently outperformed sparse sampling. The source codes and datasets are available at <uri>https://github.com/isoh24/Dense-sampling-time-series</uri>.
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spelling doaj.art-70ae4f8bb9aa407698d02aa9e5eef5052022-12-22T00:51:30ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362022-01-0110755717558010.1109/ACCESS.2022.31916689831778Dense Sampling of Time Series for ForecastingIl-Seok Oh0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8823-0438Jin-Seon Lee1https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0914-8258Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Jeonju-si, South KoreaDepartment of Information Security, Woosuk University, Wanju-gun, South KoreaA time series contain a large amount of information suitable for forecasting. Classical statistical and recent deep learning models have been widely used in a variety of forecasting applications. During the training data preparation stage, most models collect samples by sliding a fixed-sized window over the time axis of the input time series. We refer to this conventional method as &#x201C;sparse sampling&#x201D; because it cannot extract sufficient samples because it ignores another important axis representing the window size. In this study, a dense sampling method is proposed that extends the sampling space from one to two dimensions. The new space consists of time and window axes. Dense sampling provides several desirable effects, such as a larger training dataset, an intra-model ensemble, model-agnosticism, and an easier setting of the optimal window. The experiments were conducted using four real datasets: Bitcoin price, influenza-like illness, household electric power consumption, and wind speed. The mean absolute percentage error was measured extensively in terms of varying window sizes, horizons, and lengths of time series. The resulting data showed that dense sampling significantly and consistently outperformed sparse sampling. The source codes and datasets are available at <uri>https://github.com/isoh24/Dense-sampling-time-series</uri>.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9831778/Deep learningforecasting problemLSTMtime seriestraining data sampling
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Deep learning
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LSTM
time series
training data sampling
title Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting
title_full Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting
title_fullStr Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting
title_full_unstemmed Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting
title_short Dense Sampling of Time Series for Forecasting
title_sort dense sampling of time series for forecasting
topic Deep learning
forecasting problem
LSTM
time series
training data sampling
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