Denoising Multivariate Time Series Modeling for Multi-step Time Series Prediction

Jungsoo Hong, Jinuk Park, Jieun Lee, Kyeonghun Kim, Seung-Kyun Hong, Sanghyun Park

http://doi.org/10.5626/JOK.2021.48.8.892

The research field of time series forecasting predicts the future time point using seasonality in time series. In the industrial environment, since decision-making through continuous perspective prediction of the future is important, multi-step time series forecasting is necessary. However, multi-step prediction is highly unstable because of its dependency on predicted value of previous time prediction result. Therefore, the traditional time series forecasting makes a statistical prediction for the single time point. To address this limitation, we propose a novel encoder-decoder based neural network named ‘DTSNet’ which predicts multi-step time points for multivariate time series. To stabilize multi-step prediction, we exploit positional encoding to enhance representation for time point and propose a novel denoising training method. Moreover, we propose dual attention to resolve long-term dependencies and modeling complex patterns in time series, and we adopt multi-head strategy at linear projection layer for variable-specific modeling. To verify the performance improvement of our approach, we compare and analyze it with baseline models, and we demonstrate the proposed methods through comparison tests, such as, component ablation study and denoising degree experiment.