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Early forecasting for time series: a framework for predicting future horizons with minimal lookback dependencies

Aug 2026 · Neural computing & applications (Print) · Vol 38 · 0 citations · 22 references

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EF-Transformer is proposed, an early forecasting framework designed to predict future values using the minimal possible lookback segment from the early input window, and achieved superior performance across a larger number of test cases compared to several recent State-of-the-Art methods.

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