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48 results for long-horizon forecasting

This review tackles long horizon forecasting in time series analysis using deep learning.

problem Long horizon forecasting in time series analysis.
method Incorporates deep learning techniques such as trend, seasonality, Fourier and wavelet transforms, and various model architectures.
result LHF is an error propagation problem, with models like xLSTM and Triformer showing better performance.

LLapDiff models irregular multivariate time series without step-by-step integration.

problem Trade-off between discrete and continuous methods for long-horizon forecasting.
method Generative framework that models target as a low-dimensional latent trajectory, guided by modal parameterization and Laplace domain poles.
result Improves long-horizon forecasting over baselines and supports missing-value imputation.

Study forecasts sub-city real estate prices weekly using radar and news sentiment.

problem Limited availability of reliable real estate price indicators at neighborhood and long horizons.
method Combining satellite radar signals and news sentiment to forecast sub-city real estate prices.
result The multimodal model reduces mean absolute error by 35% at long horizons (26-34 weeks).

Predicts long-term return distributions with time-varying volatility.

problem Risk management in long-horizon returns.
method Predicts future return distributions without specifying volatility dynamics or shock distribution.
result Derives risk measures like VaR and CTE from the predicted return distribution.

DMIDAS improves long-term forecasting accuracy in healthcare and electricity data.

problem Challenging long-term forecasting accuracy and computational complexity.
method Smoothness regularization and mixed data sampling techniques integrated into NBEATS architecture.
result Improves prediction accuracy by 5% on long forecasting horizons (1000 timestamps) compared to state-of-the-art models.

Deep learning models forecast stock market orders over multiple time frames.

problem Forecasting stock market orders over varying time frames.
method Encoder-decoder models with sequence-to-sequence and Attention mechanisms, leveraging Intelligent Processing Units (IPUs) for faster training.
result Multi-horizon forecasting outperforms single-horizon models, especially for long prediction periods.

Hybrid model improves geopolitical conflict forecasting.

problem Forecasting geopolitical events from sparse, bursty data.
method Sparse Temporal Fusion Transformer (TFT) + Variational Nearest Neighbor Gaussian Process (VNNGP).
result Consistently outperforms standalone TFT in long-range horizons.

TempoPFN models for zero-shot time series forecasting using synthetic data.

problem Efficient long-horizon prediction and reproducibility in zero-shot time series forecasting.
method Linear RNNs pre-trained on synthetic data with GatedDeltaProduct architecture and state-weaving.
result Achieves top-tier competitive performance on various benchmarks.

SMT improves robotic long-horizon tasks by embedding and utilizing past observations.

problem Long-horizon tasks in partially observable environments require effective long-term memory.
method Scene Memory Transformer (SMT) embeds and uses attention to exploit spatio-temporal dependencies.
result SMT outperforms existing policies in visual navigation tasks.

Max entropy exploration guides reinforcement learning agents to pursue achievable goals.

problem Achieving distant test-time goals in long-horizon tasks.
method Optimize entropy of historical achieved goals by focusing on sparsely explored areas.
result Order of magnitude better sample efficiency on long-horizon multi-goal tasks.

Proposes a variational autoencoder for long-term customer revenue forecasting.

problem Predicting long-term customer revenue from sparse and irregular transaction data.
method Variational Autoencoder (VAE) with flexible latent representation.
result Improves upon latest benchmarks in multiple real-world datasets.

Paper fine-tunes a language model to predict long-term stock buy signals.

problem Predicting long-term stock price movements with narrative text.
method Fine-tuning a small language model on 10-K reports for buy/sell decisions.
result Buy signals generated from 10-K text are most precise at 6 and 9 months, providing 4.8-9% improvement over random selection.

Framework uses expert intervention to solve long-horizon reinforcement learning tasks.

problem Long horizon robot learning tasks with sparse rewards.
method Option templates and expert intervention to enable high-level task understanding.
result Framework outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by two orders of magnitude.

TRM improves long-horizon LLM RL by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning with LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

TRM improves long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

Optimizes deep learning models for ocean dynamics using Fourier neural operators.

problem Efficiently training deep learning models for ocean dynamics with optimal hyperparameters.
method Multiobjective hyperparameter optimization with DeepHyper for Fourier neural operators.
result Optimal hyperparameters significantly improved model performance in ocean dynamics forecasting.

Hierarchical Foresight improves robot vision tasks by planning long-term goals.

problem Compounding uncertainty and scalability issues in long horizon video prediction.
method Subgoal generation and planning using hierarchical visual foresight (HVF).
result Achieves nearly 200% performance improvement in vision-based manipulation tasks.

Reinforcement Patching optimizes dynamic sequence patching for efficient time series forecasting.

problem Efficiently learning data-adaptive representations for long-horizon sequence data, especially continuous sequences.
method Reinforcement Patching (ReinPatch) uses reinforcement learning to optimize dynamic patching policies and sequence backbones.
result ReinPatch achieves compelling performance in time-series forecasting compared to state-of-the-art methods.

This work improves RL for complex robotic tasks by guiding exploration with task-specific goal distributions.

problem Solving long-horizon, complex sequential tasks in robotics with sparse rewards.
method Extends hindsight relabelling to task-specific goal distributions using a small set of demonstrations.
result Significantly higher overall performance on complex robotic manipulation tasks.

A study shows that a fine-tuned model's directional accuracy in financial forecasting is largely due to chance, not skill.

problem Misleading directional accuracy in financial forecasting models.
method A reproducible, frozen-data benchmark with paired significance tests to separate skill from base-rate artifact.
result Fine-tuned models do not show significant directional skill over a base rate of 70% in financial forecasting.

The study reveals distinct patterns in retail investors' holding periods affecting stock returns.

problem Understanding the impact of retail investors' investment horizons on stock returns.
method Using self-reported holding periods from StockTwits, the study categorizes retail investors into long-horizon and short-horizon groups and analyzes their return patterns.
result Long-horizon retail investors exhibit underreaction to earnings announcements, while short-horizon investors show overreaction.

SGM combines deep learning and planning for robust long-horizon tasks.

problem Combining deep learning and planning for robust long-horizon tasks.
method Sparse Graphical Memory (SGM) that stores states and feasible transitions in a sparse memory, aggregating states according to a two-way consistency objective.
result SGM significantly outperforms current state of the art methods on long horizon, sparse-reward visual navigation tasks.

Long horizon reinforcement learning is as hard as short horizon learning.

problem Understanding the difficulty of long horizon reinforcement learning problems.
method Introduced new concepts: ε-net for optimal policies and Online Trajectory Synthesis algorithm.
result Proved that sample complexity scales logarithmically with the planning horizon, refuting the conjecture.

Action-bisimulation learns long-horizon controllability for reinforcement learning.

problem Learning relevant state features in high-dimensional observations for robust reinforcement learning.
method Action-bisimulation encoding, inspired by bisimulation invariance, extends single-step controllability to multi-step.
result Action-bisimulation pretraining improves sample efficiency in various environments.

The paper clarifies long-horizon investment and DCA, showing no risk reduction but different exposure profiles.

problem Misleading claims about reducing risk with longer investment horizons and DCA.
method Unified probabilistic framework, defining risk and uncertainty, and introducing effective investment exposure.
result Different investment timing strategies can lead to distinct exposure profiles over time, affecting risk and uncertainty.

Temporal aggregation reveals latent default correlation from monthly data.

problem Understanding effective default correlation from monthly default data.
method Temporal coarse-graining of latent default-probability paths.
result Temporal coarse-graining improves identifiability and reduces over-allocation of long-horizon fluctuations.

Temporal coarse-graining of latent default paths explains effective correlation in corporate defaults.

problem Understanding effective default correlation in corporate defaults.
method Temporal coarse-graining of latent default-probability paths, applied to corporate default-count data.
result Temporal coarse-graining provides a scale-consistent baseline that improves identifiability and reduces over-allocation of long-horizon fluctuations.

For an investor with constant absolute risk aversion and a long horizon, who trades in a market with constant investment opportunities and small proportional transaction costs, we obtain explicitly the optimal investment policy, its implied welfare, liquidity premium, and trading volume. We identify these quantities as…

2011-10-06abs ↗pdf ↗

SQIL uses a simple reward strategy to encourage long-horizon imitation of expert demonstrations.

problem Challenges in imitation learning with high-dimensional, continuous observations and unknown dynamics.
method Imitates expert demonstrations by providing a constant reward of +1 for matching actions in demonstrated states, and 0 for all others.
result Empirically outperforms behavioral cloning and achieves competitive results compared to GAIL.

Behavior cloning training instabilities amplified by SGD noise over long horizons.

problem Training instabilities in behavior cloning with deep neural networks.
method Empirical dissection of minibatch SGD updates and their effects on long-horizon rewards.
result Exponential moving average (EMA) of iterates effectively mitigates gradient variance amplification (GVA).

A new model decomposes equity returns and volatilities into memory components.

problem Understanding long-term equity dynamics and volatility patterns.
method Proposes a multivariate generalization of the variance ratio to decompose long-horizon equity dynamics.
result Identifies a five-factor model capturing persistent, antipersistent, and multi-scale memory in returns and volatility.

Agents compose pre-trained policies for complex tasks, improving zero-shot performance.

problem Challenges in long-horizon predictions and estimating visitation distributions induced by policy sequences.
method Learn predictive jumpy world models of multi-step dynamics, enhancing predictions with a consistency objective.
result Compositional planning with jumpy world models yields, on average, a 200% relative improvement over primitive actions on long-horizon tasks.

Deep forecasting models show output heads significantly improve performance on fat-tailed financial returns.

problem Improving deep learning models for forecasting fat-tailed financial returns.
method Comparison of backbone architectures and output heads (point, Gaussian, Gaussian mixture) on S&P 500 monthly log-returns.
result Switching from point to Gaussian heads improves CRPS by about 1.3 percent, and from Gaussian to mixture adds another 2.4 percent.

A framework for learning disentangled representations of symmetric environments.

problem Discovering and modelling the underlying structure of environments.
method Group representation theory for disentangled representations of dynamical environments.
result Our method enables accurate long-horizon predictions and correlates with disentanglement quality.

This work tackles long-term visual planning by goal-conditioned hierarchical predictors.

problem Current learning approaches fail on long-horizon tasks due to lack of goal information and coarse-to-fine planning.
method Formulate goal-conditioned predictors (GCPs) and hierarchical models to predict trajectories between observations.
result GCPs enable effective long-term planning with much longer horizons than before.

We consider a market consisting of one safe and one risky asset, which offer constant investment opportunities. Taking into account both proportional transaction costs and linear price impact, we derive optimal rebalancing policies for representative investors with constant relative risk aversion and a long horizon.

2014-02-21abs ↗pdf ↗