Title
AutoAI-TS: AutoAI for Time Series Forecasting
Abstract
ABSTRACTA large number of time series forecasting models including traditional statistical models, machine learning models and more recently deep learning have been proposed in the literature. However, choosing the right model along with good parameter values that performs well on a given data is still challenging. Automatically providing a good set of models to users for a given dataset saves both time and effort from using trial-and-error approaches with a wide variety of available models along with parameter optimization. We present AutoAI for Time Series Forecasting (AutoAI-TS) that provides users with a zero configuration (zero-conf) system to efficiently train, optimize and choose best forecasting model among various classes of models for the given dataset. With its flexible zero-conf design, AutoAI-TS automatically performs all the data preparation, model creation, parameter optimization, training and model selection for users and provides a trained model that is ready to use. For given data, AutoAI-TS utilizes a wide variety of models including classical statistical models, Machine Learning (ML) models, statistical-ML hybrid models and deep learning models along with various transformations to create forecasting pipelines. It then evaluates and ranks pipelines using the proposed T-Daub mechanism to choose the best pipeline. The paper describe in detail all the technical aspects of AutoAI-TS along with extensive benchmarking on a variety of real world data sets for various use-cases. Benchmark results show that AutoAI-TS, with no manual configuration from the user, automatically trains and selects pipelines that on average outperform existing state-of-the-art time series forecasting toolkits.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3448016.3457557
International Conference on Management of Data
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
machine learning, ML pipelines, AutoML, time series, optimization
Conference
0730-8078
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
13
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Syed Yousaf Shah111.71
Dhaval Patel221.65
Long Vu300.34
Xuan Hong Dang422114.31
Bei Chen5269.11
Peter Kirchner600.34
Horst Samulowitz731626.05
David Wood8394.93
Gregory Bramble900.34
Wesley M. Gifford1000.34
Giridhar Ganapavarapu1100.34
Roman Vaculín1226417.69
Petros Zerfos1395967.88