KDBI special issue: Explainability feature selection framework application for LSTM multivariate time-series forecast self optimization

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2025

Authors

Rodrigues, EM (Author) Other; Baghoussi, Y (Author) Other; João Mendes-Moreira (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: Expert Systems

Vol. 42 No. 1

ISSN: 0266-4720

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

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Authenticus ID: P-010-ZJ6

DOI: 10.1111/exsy.13674

Abstract (EN): Deep learning models are widely used in multivariate time series forecasting, yet, they have high computational costs. One way to reduce this cost is by reducing data dimensionality, which involves removing unimportant or low importance information with the proper method. This work presents a study on an explainability feature selection framework composed of four methods (IMV-LSTM Tensor, LIME-LSTM, Average SHAP-LSTM, and Instance SHAP-LSTM) aimed at using the LSTM black-box model complexity to its favour, with the end goal of improving the error metrics and reducing the computational cost on a forecast task. To test the framework, three datasets with a total of 101 multivariate time series were used, with the explainability methods outperforming the baseline methods in most of the data, be it in error metrics or computation time for the LSTM model training.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 14