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marah othman

06/20/2023, 8:50 AM
Hello all, is reasonable to make multiple models do forecasting and then take the average of all predictions from all models ? and if not how can i benefit from many models
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Kevin Kho

06/20/2023, 3:51 PM
You could, but realistically it becomes harder to deploy also and there is a high chance of overfitting when you ensemble like this. I guess the question is what is the use case and does a difference of 0.1 or 0.2 accuracy have significant impact?
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Mariana Menchero

06/21/2023, 1:18 AM
Hey @marah othman I wouldn't take the average but the median. I don't know what kind of models you're planning to use, but here's a good example of a combination of univariate models that placed 6th in the M4 Competition. All the models described in that paper are implemented in StatsForecast.
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marah othman

06/22/2023, 8:25 AM
@Kevin Kho i am not sure if you understand my question i am asking if i can get the predcitions after train all models one by one and sum this prediction by average or meadian to benfit from all results
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Kevin Kho

06/22/2023, 3:18 PM
I think I understand. I’m wondering how much the performance of your predictions increases by if you do this, and if it’s worth it.