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GNBAN: New Graph Network Improves Retail Demand Forecasting Accuracy

Researchers have introduced GNBAN, a Graph Neural Basis Attention Network designed for long-horizon forecasting across large sets of correlated entities, particularly in retail demand prediction. This novel architecture integrates heterogeneous graph representation learning with an interpretable decomposition head, allowing a single model to serve an entire catalog by representing retail data as a graph. GNBAN decomposes forecasts into trend, seasonal, and generic components, utilizing a per-basis attention mechanism to capture distinct temporal patterns while maintaining interpretability. Evaluations on the M5 Walmart and Favorita Grocery Sales benchmarks show GNBAN improves forecasting accuracy by 4-5% compared to existing graph-based methods. AI

IMPACT This model could improve the accuracy and interpretability of demand forecasting in large-scale retail operations.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new model architecture.

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GNBAN: New Graph Network Improves Retail Demand Forecasting Accuracy

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Janak M. Patel, Anirudh Deodhar, Dagnachew Birru ·

    GNBAN: Graph Neural Basis Attention Networks for Long-Horizon Forecasting over Large Entity Sets

    arXiv:2606.27863v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Demand forecasting at the bottom of a retail hierarchy requires predicting tens of thousands of correlated long-horizon series across products, stores, and regions. Modern systems must scale across massive catalogs, capture shared…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Dagnachew Birru ·

    GNBAN: Graph Neural Basis Attention Networks for Long-Horizon Forecasting over Large Entity Sets

    Demand forecasting at the bottom of a retail hierarchy requires predicting tens of thousands of correlated long-horizon series across products, stores, and regions. Modern systems must scale across massive catalogs, capture shared demand dynamics, and remain interpretable enough …