2022/01/30 by Tian Zhou, Ziqing Ma, Zhou, Tian +9 · 187 citations
Computer Science · Decision Sciences · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Machine Learning (cs.LG) #Machine Learning (stat.ML) #Neural Networks and Applications #Stock Market Forecasting Methods #Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2201.12740
openalex publication_date 2022/01/30 · openalex created_date 2022/05/05 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Although Transformer-based methods have significantly improved state-of-the-art results for long-term series 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 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 (\bf 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.