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Prediction Challenge 2023/2024Publications
June 27, 2024

“Taking time seriously: Predicting conflict fatalities using temporal fusion transformers”

Working paper documenting the prediction model submitted to the 2023/2024 VIEWS Prediction Challenge.

Authors: Julian Walterskirchen, Sonja Häffner, Christian Oswald, and Marco Binetti

Walterskirchen et al., 2024Download

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