Probabilistic Forecasting with Spline Quantile Function RNNs
Abstract
In this paper, we propose a flexible method for probabilistic modeling with conditional quantile functions using monotonic regression splines. The shape of the spline is parameterized by a neural network whose parameters are learned by minimizing the continuous ranked probability score. Within this framework, we propose a method for probabilistic time series forecasting, which combines the modeling capacity of recurrent neural networks with the flexibility of a spline-based representation of the output distribution. Unlike methods based on parametric probability density functions and maximum likelihood estimation, the proposed method can flexibly adapt to different output distributions without manual intervention. We empirically demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach on synthetic and real-world data sets.
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Gasthaus et al. "Probabilistic Forecasting with Spline Quantile Function RNNs." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2019.Markdown
[Gasthaus et al. "Probabilistic Forecasting with Spline Quantile Function RNNs." Artificial Intelligence and Statistics, 2019.](https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2019/gasthaus2019aistats-probabilistic/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{gasthaus2019aistats-probabilistic,
title = {{Probabilistic Forecasting with Spline Quantile Function RNNs}},
author = {Gasthaus, Jan and Benidis, Konstantinos and Wang, Yuyang and Rangapuram, Syama Sundar and Salinas, David and Flunkert, Valentin and Januschowski, Tim},
booktitle = {Artificial Intelligence and Statistics},
year = {2019},
pages = {1901-1910},
volume = {89},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aistats/2019/gasthaus2019aistats-probabilistic/}
}