ETSformer: Exponential Smoothing Transformers for Time-Series Forecasting

ETSformer is a deep learning architecture for time-series forecasting introduced by Woo et al. in 2022. It integrates classical exponential smoothing principles directly into the Transformer framework by replacing standard self-attention with an exponential smoothing attention mechanism. The model decomposes a time series into level, growth (trend), and seasonal components, allowing it to leverage both the long-range dependency modeling of Transformers and the interpretable structure of statistical ETS models.