Time series forecasts of different temporal granularity are widely used in real-world applications, e.g., sales prediction in days and weeks for making different inventory plans. However, these tasks are usually solved separately without ensuring coherence, which is crucial for aligning downstream decisions. Previous works mainly focus on ensuring coherence with some straightforward methods, e.g., aggregation from the forecasts of fine granularity to the coarse ones, and allocation from the coarse granularity to the fine ones. These methods merely take the temporal hierarchical structure to maintain coherence without improving the forecasting accuracy. In this paper, we propose a novel granularity message-passing mechanism (GMP) that leverages temporal hierarchy information to improve forecasting performance and also utilizes an adaptive reconciliation (AR) strategy to maintain coherence without performance loss. Furthermore, we introduce an optimization module to achieve task-based targets while adhering to more real-world constraints. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that our framework (GMP-AR) achieves superior performances on temporal hierarchical forecasting tasks compared to state-of-the-art methods. In addition, our framework has been successfully applied to a real-world task of payment traffic management in Alipay by integrating with the task-based optimization module.

GMP-AR: Granularity Message Passing and Adaptive Reconciliation for Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting

Multivariate time series forecasting with hierarchical structure
is widely used in real-world applications, e.g., sales
predictions for the geographical hierarchy formed by cities,
states, and countries. The hierarchical time series (HTS) forecasting
includes two sub-tasks, i.e., forecasting and reconciliation.
In the previous works, hierarchical information is only
integrated in the reconciliation step to maintain coherency,
but not in forecasting step for accuracy improvement. In this
paper, we propose two novel tree-based feature integration
mechanisms, i.e., top-down convolution and bottom-up attention
to leverage the information of the hierarchical structure
to improve the forecasting performance. Moreover, unlike
most previous reconciliation methods which either rely
on strong assumptions or focus on coherent constraints only,
we utilize deep neural optimization networks, which not only
achieve coherency without any assumptions, but also allow
more flexible and realistic constraints to achieve task-based
targets, e.g., lower under-estimation penalty and meaningful
decision-making loss to facilitate the subsequent downstream
tasks. Experiments on real-world datasets demonstrate that
our tree-based feature integration mechanism achieves superior
performances on hierarchical forecasting tasks compared
to the state-of-the-art methods, and our neural optimization
networks can be applied to real-world tasks effectively without
any additional effort under coherence and task-based constraints.

SLOTH: Structured Learning and Task-based Optimization for Time Series Forecasting on Hierarchies

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GMP-AR: Granularity Message Passing and Adaptive Reconciliation for Temporal Hierarchy Forecasting

SLOTH: Structured Learning and Task-based Optimization for Time Series Forecasting on Hierarchies

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