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Long-term time series forecasting is challenging since prediction accuracy tends to decrease dramatically with the increasing horizon. Although Transformer-based methods have significantly improved state-of-the-art results for long-term forecasting, they are not only computationally expensive but more importantly, are unable to capture the global view of time series (e.g. overall trend). To address these problems, we propose to combine Transformer with the seasonal-trend decomposition method, in which the decomposition method captures the global profile of time series while Transformers capture more detailed structures. To further enhance the performance of Transformer for long-term prediction, we exploit the fact that most time series tend to have a sparse representation in a well-known basis such as Fourier transform, and develop a frequency enhanced Transformer. Besides being more effective, the proposed method, termed as Frequency Enhanced Decomposed Transformer (FEDformer), is more efficient than standard Transformer with a linear complexity to the sequence length. Our empirical studies with six benchmark datasets show that compared with state-of-the-art methods, Fedformer can reduce prediction error by 14.8% and 22.6% for multivariate and univariate time series, respectively. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/MAZiqing/FEDformer.
Author Information
Tian Zhou (Alibaba DAMO Academy)
Ziqing MA (Alibaba)
Qingsong Wen (Alibaba Group U.S.)
Qingsong Wen is a Staff Engineer and Team Leader of DAMO Academy, Alibaba Group (U.S.) Inc. at Bellevue, WA, USA, leading a team working on Intelligent Time Series and Decision for Cloud Computing, E-Commerce, and Energy Industry. Previously, he worked at Futurewei, Qualcomm, and Marvell. He received his Ph.D. and MS degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Xue Wang (Alibaba DAMO Academy)
Liang Sun (Alibaba Group)
rong jin (alibaba group)
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