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Saadallah/Priebe/2019c: A Drift-based Dynamic Ensemble Members Selection using Clustering for Time Series Forecasting

Bibtype Inproceedings
Bibkey Saadallah/Priebe/2019c
Author Saadallah, Amal and Priebe, Florian and Katharina, Morik
Title A Drift-based Dynamic Ensemble Members Selection using Clustering for Time Series Forecasting
Publisher European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases {ECML} {PKDD} 2019, Würzburg, Germany
Abstract Both complex and evolving nature of time series structure
make forecasting among one of the most important and challenging tasks
in time series analysis. Typical methods for forecasting are designed to
model time-evolving dependencies between data observations. However,
it is generally accepted that none of them is universally valid for every
application. Therefore, methods for learning heterogeneous ensembles
by combining a diverse set of forecasts together appear as a promising
solution to tackle this task. Hitherto, in classical ML literature, ensemble
techniques such as stacking, cascading and voting are mostly restricted
to operate in a static manner. To deal with changes in the relative
performance of models as well as changes in the data distribution, we
propose a drift-aware meta-learning approach for adaptively selecting
and combining forecasting models. Our assumption is that di erent
forecasting models have di erent areas of expertise and a varying relative
performance. Our method ensures dynamic selection of initial ensemble
base models candidates through a performance drift detection mechanism.
Since diversity is a fundamental component in ensemble methods, we
propose a second stage selection with clustering that is computed after
each drift detection. Predictions of nal selected models are combined
into a single prediction. An exhaustive empirical testing of the method
was performed, evaluating both generalization error and scalability of the
approach using time series from several real world domains. Empirical
results show the competitiveness of the method in comparison to state-
of-the-art approaches for combining forecasters.
Month 09
Year 2019
Projekt SFB876-B3
 
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