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Concurrent Neural Network : A model of competition between times series

Machine Learning 2021-06-21 v2 Machine Learning Applications

Abstract

Competition between times series often arises in sales prediction, when similar products are on sale on a marketplace. This article provides a model of the presence of cannibalization between times series. This model creates a "competitiveness" function that depends on external features such as price and margin. It also provides a theoretical guaranty on the error of the model under some reasonable conditions, and implement this model using a neural network to compute this competitiveness function. This implementation outperforms other traditional time series methods and classical neural networks for market share prediction on a real-world data set.

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@article{arxiv.2009.14610,
  title  = {Concurrent Neural Network : A model of competition between times series},
  author = {Rémy Garnier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2009.14610},
  year   = {2021}
}