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Online Data Augmentation for Forecasting with Deep Learning

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Vítor Cerqueira *
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Moisés Santos
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Luís Roque
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Yassine Baghoussi
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C. Guedes Soares
DOI:10.1007/978-3-032-05176-9_17delete
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Deep learning approaches are increasingly used to tackle forecasting tasks but require substantial training data. When samples are limited, synthetic data generation techniques can effectively augment datasets to improve model performance. Data augmentation is typically applied offline before training a model. However, when training with mini-batches, some batches may contain a disproportionate number of synthetic samples that do not align well with the original data characteristics. This work introduces an online data augmentation framework that generates synthetic samples during the training of neural networks. By creating synthetic samples for each batch alongside their original counterparts, we maintain a balanced representation between real and synthetic data throughout the training process. This approach fits naturally with the iterative nature of neural network training and eliminates the need to store large augmented datasets. We validated the proposed framework using 3797 time series from 6 benchmark datasets, three neural architectures, and seven synthetic data generation techniques. The experiments suggest that online data augmentation leads to better forecasting performance compared to offline data augmentation or no augmentation approaches. The framework and experiments are publicly available.
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PROGRESS IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, EPIA 2025, PT I
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universidade do porto
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