Multivariate Time Series Data Prediction Based on ATT-LSTM Network

Deep learning models have been widely used in prediction problems in various scenarios and have shown excellent prediction effects. As a deep learning model, the long short-term memory neural network (LSTM) is potent in predicting time series data. However, with the advancement of technology, data collection has become more accessible, and multivariate time series data have emerged. Multivariate time series data are often characterized by a large amount of data, tight timeline, and many related sequences. Especially in real data sets, the change rules of many sequences will be affected by the changes of other sequences. The interacting factors data, mutation information, and other issues seriously impact the prediction accuracy of deep learning models when predicting this type of data. On the other hand, we can also extract the mutual influence information between different sequences and simultaneously use the extracted information as part of the model input to make the prediction results more accurate. Therefore, we propose an ATT-LSTM model. The network applies the attention mechanism (attention) to the LSTM to filter the mutual influence information in the data when predicting the multivariate time series data, which makes up for the poor ability of the network to process data. Weaknesses have greatly improved the accuracy of the network in predicting multivariate time series data. To evaluate the model’s accuracy, we compare the ATT-LSTM model with the other six models on two real multivariate time series data sets based on two evaluation indicators: Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE). The experimental results show that the model has an excellent performance improvement compared with the other six models, proving the model’s effectiveness in predicting multivariate time series data.