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Accuracy comparison between Sparse Autoregressive and XGBoost models for high-dimensional product sales forecasting
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[en] Predicting future sales is key for any business budgeting and resource allocation. One major concern when trying to build accurate forecasts are the cross-category relationships between some products and the effect that might have on each other’s sales. Given today’s data abundance, this issue is even more worrying: traditional statistic models can’t handle high-dimensional datasets with ten or more products.
With the use of popular machine learning and data science tools, we developed a framework that enables the building, training and evaluation of two models and its comparison through a detailed set of forecast metrics 1 . The first model is a modified Vector Autoregressive model (VAR) which takes into account product relationships.
The second one is an XGBoost model, which is not specialized into cross-category associations but it’s known for its versatility and performance when working with tabular data. After performing a one-month ahead sales forecasting on a huge dataset of multiple product sets, we find that inter-product connections play a huge role in
prediction accuracy since the VAR model performed considerably much better than the XGBoost.
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Treballs finals del Màster de Fonaments de Ciència de Dades, Facultat de matemàtiques, Universitat de Barcelona. Curs: 2020-2021. Tutor: Jordi Vitrià i Marca
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RAS JIMÉNEZ, Blai. Accuracy comparison between Sparse Autoregressive and XGBoost models for high-dimensional product sales forecasting. [consulta: 11 de abril de 2026]. [Disponible a: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/185976]