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ES-dRNN: A Hybrid Exponential Smoothing and Dilated Recurrent Neural Network Model for Short-Term Load Forecasting

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IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/TNNLS.2023.3259149

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Deep learning (DL); exponential smoothing (ES); hybrid forecasting models; recurrent neural networks (RNNs); short-term load forecasting (STLF); time series (TS) forecasting

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This article proposes a novel hybrid hierarchical deep-learning model that can handle complex time series with multiple seasonality and produce both point forecasts and predictive intervals. The model combines exponential smoothing and a recurrent neural network, which can extract the main components of each time series and effectively model short and long-term dependencies. Empirical study shows that the proposed model has high expressive power and outperforms statistical and state-of-the-art machine learning models in terms of accuracy.
Short-term load forecasting (STLF) is challenging due to complex time series (TS) which express three seasonal patterns and a nonlinear trend. This article proposes a novel hybrid hierarchical deep-learning (DL) model that deals with multiple seasonality and produces both point forecasts and predictive intervals (PIs). It combines exponential smoothing (ES) and a recurrent neural network (RNN). ES extracts dynamically the main components of each individual TS and enables on-the-fly deseasonalization, which is particularly useful when operating on a relatively small dataset. A multilayer RNN is equipped with a new type of dilated recurrent cell designed to efficiently model both short and long-term dependencies in TS. To improve the internal TS representation and thus the model's performance, RNN learns simultaneously both the ES parameters and the main mapping function transforming inputs into forecasts. We compare our approach against several baseline methods, including classical statistical methods and machine learning (ML) approaches, on STLF problems for 35 European countries. The empirical study clearly shows that the proposed model has high expressive power to solve nonlinear stochastic forecasting problems with TS including multiple seasonality and significant random fluctuations. In fact, it outperforms both statistical and state-of-the-art ML models in terms of accuracy.

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