Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NEURAL SYSTEMS
Volume 31, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0129065721300011
Keywords
Deep learning; forecasting; time series; review
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- FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades -Agencia Estatal de Investigacin [TIN2017-88209-C2]
- Andalusian Regional Government [US-1263341, P18-RT-2778]
- NVIDIA
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Research demonstrates that long short-term memory (LSTM) and convolutional networks (CNN) are the best options for time series forecasting, with LSTMs yielding the most accurate predictions; CNNs show more stable performance under different parameter configurations and are also more efficient.
In recent years, deep learning techniques have outperformed traditional models in many machine learning tasks. Deep neural networks have successfully been applied to address time series forecasting problems, which is a very important topic in data mining. They have proved to be an effective solution given their capacity to automatically learn the temporal dependencies present in time series. However, selecting the most convenient type of deep neural network and its parametrization is a complex task that requires considerable expertise. Therefore, there is a need for deeper studies on the suitability of all existing architectures for different forecasting tasks. In this work, we face two main challenges: a comprehensive review of the latest works using deep learning for time series forecasting and an experimental study comparing the performance of the most popular architectures. The comparison involves a thorough analysis of seven types of deep learning models in terms of accuracy and efficiency. We evaluate the rankings and distribution of results obtained with the proposed models under many different architecture configurations and training hyperparameters. The datasets used comprise more than 50,000 time series divided into 12 different forecasting problems. By training more than 38,000 models on these data, we provide the most extensive deep learning study for time series forecasting. Among all studied models, the results show that long short-term memory (LSTM) and convolutional networks (CNN) are the best alternatives, with LSTMs obtaining the most accurate forecasts. CNNs achieve comparable performance with less variability of results under different parameter configurations, while also being more efficient.
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