Paper ID: 2205.12201

Forecasting Multilinear Data via Transform-Based Tensor Autoregression

Jackson Cates, Randy C. Hoover, Kyle Caudle, Cagri Ozdemir, Karen Braman, David Machette

In the era of big data, there is an increasing demand for new methods for analyzing and forecasting 2-dimensional data. The current research aims to accomplish these goals through the combination of time-series modeling and multilinear algebraic systems. We expand previous autoregressive techniques to forecast multilinear data, aptly named the L-Transform Tensor autoregressive (L-TAR for short). Tensor decompositions and multilinear tensor products have allowed for this approach to be a feasible method of forecasting. We achieve statistical independence between the columns of the observations through invertible discrete linear transforms, enabling a divide and conquer approach. We present an experimental validation of the proposed methods on datasets containing image collections, video sequences, sea surface temperature measurements, stock prices, and networks.

Submitted: May 24, 2022