Can we have forecast combinations with infinitely many models? A preprint is available. Comments are most welcome!

Went to stat conference: too theorectical, no one will use it in practice; went to data mining conference: where are all the theorectical foundations? A tale of two tastes.

As an academic, being rejected is normal. But having a desk rejection in the morning is still brutal for me. - Americano with milk, please - No, Americano does not serve with milk.

This is the second day of 2024. My Google Scholar notified me I have 22 new citations since 2024. How could that happen?😇😇😇

Come join us June 30 - July 3 in Dijon, France for the 44th International Symposium on Forecasting! forecasters.org

My academic brother invited me to organize a conference session. The organizer list on the conference web pag is like this😂😂😂😂 $ whereami

The 2024 European Seminar on Bayesian Econometrics (ESOBE) will be hosted by Örebro University, Sweden, and takes place on August 22-23. oru.se/institutioner/… Deadline for submission: May 26, 2024.

I asked my son what the biggest number is with three nines? He quickly answered 9^9^9. Then he asked what exactly the number was. I calculated with Python and totally lost. Interestingly I found Python DOES NOT proceed left to right with math 3^3^3 = 3^(3^3) != (3^3)^3.

In France, even fonts could go striking.

Within < 1 year our forecast combination review paper received 100 cites👏👏👏 In the paper, Xiaoqian Wang @robjhyndman Yanfei Kang and I carefully surveyed simple to nonlinear combinations for point/probabilistic forecasts with different dialects in ML/DL doi.org/10.1016/j.ijfo…

Thank you to everyone who organized, planned, presented and attended #ISFconf2024! We had 555+ registrations from over 35 countries, 130 student participants and over 375 presentations. Looking ahead to #ISFconf2025 in Beijing, hope to see you there! isf.forecasters.org/overview/about…

Having a naughty baby during conference? Now is available for a change at the airport teminal 2 just after your arrival.

How does local information affect stock forecasting for non-institutional investors? We examine day-ahead forecasting asymmetry with over 300 million postings pertaining to 2,239 listed firms in China. Why is that important? Read more in Contemporary Accounting Research doi.org/10.1111/1911-3…

Kernel smoothing is a widely used nonparametric method. But for a massive dataset on a distributed system⁉️ Our JCGS paper provides a novel grid point approximation that is efficient and requires no communication among data nodes (with Gao et al). doi.org/10.1080/106186…

Our 2020 paper "Forecasting with time series imaging" reached its 100th citation 👏👏👏 We transform time series into images so local features are extracted using CV algorithms & for forecast combinations. Less human intervention but better performance. Xixi Li Yanfei Kang 🏆

Submit your abstract and join us #ISFConf2025. Abstract submissions is due on March 21. isf.forecasters.org. Program is available: isf.forecasters.org/program/. #forecasting #Symposium

Come join our 8th Forecasting Summer School in Beijing, on High-Frequency Seasonal Time Series. Application ends on April 2. More information: forecasters.org/events/summer-…. #ISFconf2025 IIForecasters #forecasting #TimeSeries Laurent Ferrara Feng Li Yanfei Kang

🏆Exciting news! My students & I competed in a global tourism recovery forecasting challenge and after 2 years of waiting, we are 🥇 1st in point forecasting 🥉 3rd in interval forecasting Honored to present at #ISF2025 Beijing! Huge thanks to organizers for their dedication 🎉

The IIF, in collaboration w/ financial support from SAS®, is proud to announce financial grants: (2) $10,000 grants, for research on how to improve forecasting methods and business forecasting practice. Deadline for application is October 11. Details: forecasters.org/programs/resea….