For decades, time series forecasting had many applications in various industries such as weather, financial, healthcare, business, retail, and energy consumption forecasting. An accurate prediction in these applications is a very important and also difficult task because of high sampling rates leading to monthly, daily, or even hourly data. This high-frequency property of time series data results in complexity and seasonality. Moreover, the time series data can have irregular fluctuations caused by various factors. Thus, using a single model does not result in good accuracy results. In this study, we propose an efficient forecasting framework by hybridizing the recurrent neural network model with Facebook’s Prophet to improve the forecasting performance. Seasonal-trend decomposition based on the Loess (STL) algorithm is applied to the original time series and these decomposed components are used to train our recurrent neural network for reducing the impact of these irregular patterns on final predictions. Moreover, to preserve seasonality, the original time series data is modeled with Prophet, and the output of both sub-models are merged as final prediction values. In experiments, we compared our model with state-of-art methods for real-world energy consumption data of seven countries and the proposed hybrid method demonstrates competitive results to these state-of-art methods.

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Time series forecasting has lots of applications in various industries such as weather, business, retail and energy consumption forecasting. Accurate prediction in these applications is very important and also difficult task because of complexity and uncertainty of time series. Nowadays, using deep learning methods is a popular approach in time series forecasting and shows better performance than classical methods. However, in the literature, there are few studies which use deep learning methods in fuzzy time series (FTS) forecasting. In this study, we propose a novel FTS forecasting model which is based upon hybridization of Recurrent Neural Networks with FTS to deal with complexity and also uncertanity of these series. The proposed model utilizes Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) to make prediction by using combination of membership values and also past value from original time series data as model input and produce real forecast value. Moreover, the proposed model can handle first order fuzzy relations as well as high order ones. In experiments, we have compared our model results with those of state-of-art methods by using two real world datasets; The Taiwan Stock Exchange Capitalization Weighted Stock Index (TAIEX) and Nikkei Stock Average. The results indicate that our model outperforms or performs similar to other methods. The proposed model is also validated by using Covid-19 active case dataset and shows better performance than Long Short-term Memory (LSTM) networks.