Journal of Forecasting,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: Dec. 24, 2024
ABSTRACT
The
prediction
and
early
warning
of
soybean
futures
prices
have
been
even
more
crucial
for
the
formulation
food‐related
policies
trade
risk
management.
Amid
increasing
geopolitical
conflicts
uncertainty
in
across
countries
recent
years,
there
significant
fluctuations
global
prices,
making
it
necessary
to
investigate
reveal
price
determination
mechanism,
accurately
predict
trends
future
prices.
Therefore,
this
study
proposes
a
comprehensive
interpretable
framework
forecasting.
Specifically,
employs
set
methodologies.
Using
snow
ablation
optimizer
(SAO),
improves
parameters
time
fusion
transformer
(TFT)
model,
an
advanced
predictive
model
based
on
self‐attention
mechanism.
Besides,
addresses
factors
influencing
constructs
effective
features
through
feature
method.
To
explore
volatility
trends,
original
series
are
decomposed
using
variational
mode
decomposition
(VMD).
This
also
enhances
accuracy
predictions
by
introducing
coefficients
trading
volumes
as
predictors.
empirical
findings
suggest
that
VMD‐SAO‐TFT
interpretability,
offering
implications
decision‐makers
achieve
accurate
agricultural
Energies,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
18(3), P. 742 - 742
Published: Feb. 6, 2025
Despite
the
rapid
expansion
of
smart
grids
and
large
volumes
data
at
individual
consumer
level,
there
are
still
various
cases
where
adequate
collection
to
train
accurate
load
forecasting
models
is
challenging
or
even
impossible.
This
paper
proposes
adapting
an
established
Model-Agnostic
Meta-Learning
algorithm
for
short-term
in
context
few-shot
learning.
Specifically,
proposed
method
can
rapidly
adapt
generalize
within
any
unknown
time
series
arbitrary
length
using
only
minimal
training
samples.
In
this
context,
meta-learning
model
learns
optimal
set
initial
parameters
a
base-level
learner
recurrent
neural
network.
The
evaluated
dataset
historical
consumption
from
real-world
consumers.
examined
series’
short
length,
it
produces
forecasts
outperforming
transfer
learning
task-specific
machine
methods
by
12.5%.
To
enhance
robustness
fairness
during
evaluation,
novel
metric,
mean
average
log
percentage
error,
that
alleviates
bias
introduced
commonly
used
MAPE
metric.
Finally,
studies
evaluate
model’s
under
different
hyperparameters
lengths
also
conducted,
demonstrating
approach
consistently
outperforms
all
other
models.
Applied Sciences,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
14(13), P. 5846 - 5846
Published: July 4, 2024
Energy
demand
forecasting
is
crucial
for
effective
resource
management
within
the
energy
sector
and
aligned
with
objectives
of
Sustainable
Development
Goal
7
(SDG7).
This
study
undertakes
a
comparative
analysis
different
models
to
predict
future
trends
in
Brazil,
improve
methodologies,
achieve
sustainable
development
goals.
The
evaluation
encompasses
following
models:
Seasonal
Autoregressive
Integrated
Moving
Average
(SARIMA),
Exogenous
SARIMA
(SARIMAX),
Facebook
Prophet
(FB
Prophet),
Holt–Winters,
Trigonometric
Seasonality
Box–Cox
transformation,
ARMA
errors,
Trend,
components
(TBATS),
draws
attention
their
respective
strengths
limitations.
Its
findings
reveal
unique
capabilities
among
models,
excelling
tracing
seasonal
patterns,
FB
demonstrating
its
potential
applicability
across
various
sectors,
Holt–Winters
adept
at
managing
fluctuations,
TBATS
offering
flexibility
albeit
requiring
significant
data
inputs.
Additionally,
investigation
explores
effect
external
factors
on
consumption,
by
establishing
connections
through
Granger
causality
test
conducting
correlation
analyses.
accuracy
these
assessed
without
exogenous
variables,
categorized
as
economical,
industrial,
climatic.
Ultimately,
this
seeks
add
body
knowledge
prediction,
well
allow
informed
decision-making
planning
policymaking
and,
thus,
make
rapid
progress
toward
SDG7
associated
targets.
paper
concludes
that,
although
achieves
best
accuracy,
most
fit
model,
considering
residual
autocorrelation,
it
predicts
that
Brazil
will
approximately
70,000
GWh
2033.
Energy Science & Engineering,
Journal Year:
2025,
Volume and Issue:
unknown
Published: April 17, 2025
ABSTRACT
Forecasting
green
energy
is
crucial
in
diminishing
dependence
on
fossil
fuels
and
fostering
sustainable
development.
However,
it
encounters
notable
challenges,
such
as
variable
demand,
restricted
data
availability,
the
integration
of
various
datasets,
necessity
for
precise
long‐term
projections.
This
study
thoughtfully
examines
these
issues
using
temporal
fusion
transformer
(TFT)
model
to
project
production
across
five
Latin
American
nations
(Argentina,
Brazil,
Chile,
Colombia,
Mexico)
Canada,
drawing
from
1965
2023.
The
performance
proposed
TFT
more
authentic
compared
with
gated
recurrent
unit
(GRU),
long
short‐term
memory
(LSTM),
deep
autoregression
(DeepAR),
meta
graph‐based
convolutional
network
(MegaCRN).
has
a
mean
square
error
(MSE)
0.0003,
root
(RMSE)
0.0173,
absolute
(MAE)
0.0112
percentage
(MAPE)
1.76%.
From
preceding
results,
clear
that
can
identify
dynamic
patterns
will
contribute
towards
achieving
development
goals
by
end
2040.