EpiCastBench: Datasets and Benchmarks for Multivariate Epidemic Forecasting

ArXi:2605.11598v1 Announce Type: cross The increasing adoption of data-driven decision-making in public health has established epidemic forecasting as a critical area of research. Recent advances in multivariate forecasting models better capture complex temporal dependencies than conventional univariate approaches, which model individual series independently. Despite this potential, the development of robust epidemic forecasting methods is constrained by the lack of high-quality benchmarks comprising diverse multivariate datasets across infectious diseases and geographical regions.