动态时间序列下自动选最优模型,实时更新可靠预测集。
Online Conformal Model Selection for Nonstationary Time Series
- 结合置信集与在线推断,实时筛选适配当前数据的模型
- 在非平稳环境下仍能以指定概率覆盖最优模型
- 适合需要持续调整模型的金融、气象等实时场景
本文提出MPS(Model Prediction Set)框架,用于非平稳时间序列的在线模型选择。传统方法如信息准则和交叉验证依赖平稳性假设,在动态变化环境中表现不佳。真实世界数据极少平稳,非平稳下的模型选择仍是开放难题。MPS通过融合置信集与保形推断,实现实时更新候选模型集,保证未来周期最优模型以指定长期概率被包含,且能自适应未知形式的非平稳性。仿真与真实数据验证表明,MPS在非平稳条件下可稳定高效识别最优模型,弥补离线方法不足。同时,其生成的集合常具高精度且规模小,演化过程揭示动态变化规律。该框架通用性强,适用于任意数据生成过程、结构、模型类、训练方法与评估指标。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This paper introduces the MPS (Model Prediction Set), a novel framework for online model selection for nonstationary time series. Classical model selection methods, such as information criteria and cross-validation, rely heavily on the stationarity assumption and often fail in dynamic environments which undergo gradual or abrupt changes over time. Yet real-world data are rarely stationary, and model selection under nonstationarity remains a largely open problem. To tackle this challenge, we combine conformal inference with model confidence sets to develop a procedure that adaptively selects models best suited to the evolving dynamics at any given time. Concretely, the MPS updates in real time a confidence set of candidate models that covers the best model for the next time period with a specified long-run probability, while adapting to nonstationarity of unknown forms. Through simulations and real-world data analysis, we demonstrate that MPS reliably and efficiently identifies optimal models under nonstationarity, an essential capability lacking in offline methods. Moreover, MPS frequently produces high-quality sets with small cardinality, whose evolution offers deeper insights into changing dynamics. As a generic framework, MPS accommodates any data-generating process, data structure, model class, training method, and evaluation metric, making it broadly applicable across diverse problem settings.
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