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Models

Model Descriptions

Model name: AIpert

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Piecewise log linear regression model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: Auquan

Intervention assumptions: These projections do not make specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Fitted SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: Yu_Group

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Ensemble of combined linear and exponential predictors (CLEP)

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: BPagano

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: SIR model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: CMU

Intervention Assumptions: These projections do not make specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Autoregressive time-series model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: CDDEP

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Bayesian SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: Columbia

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that contact rates will increase 5% during the first week of the forecast period. Following week 1, the reproductive number is then set to 1.0.

Hospitalization assumptions: The model uses state-specific hospitalization data, when available. In states without hospitalization data, the model uses the national average value for hospitalization data.

Methods: Metapopulation SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: Columbia-UNC

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that transmission intensity will peak in early July and then gradually decline.

Methods: Statistical survival-convolutional model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: Covid19Sim

Intervention assumptions: This model is based on assumptions about how levels of social distancing will change in the future.

Hospitalization assumptions: The number of new hospitalizations per day are estimated from the number of infections, using state-specific hospitalization rates.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: CAN

Intervention assumptions: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Fitted SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: DDS

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Bayesian hierarchical model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: Facebook

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: A machine learning model, combined with an auto-regressive model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: FRBSF-Wilson

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: An SIR-derived econometric county panel data model with transmission rate assumed to be function of weather and mobility

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: GT-CHHS

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that that once stay-at-home orders are lifted, contact rates will gradually increase. It also assumes that some households containing symptomatic cases will self-quarantine.

Methods: Agent-based model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: GT-DeepCOVID (formerly: GA_Tech)

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Hospitalization Assumptions: Daily hospitalizations are predicted from publicly available, state-level data sources.

Methods: Deep learning

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: Google-HSPH

Intervention assumptions: These forecasts implement changes to future population mobility in order to predict COVID-19 transmission intensity.

Methods: SEIR model fit with machine learning

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: HKUST-DNN

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Deep neural networks trained on observed deaths, cases, and hospitalizations to forecast state-level cumulative deaths

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: IEM

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: SEIR model with machine learning.

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: Imperial

Intervention Assumptions: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Ensembles of mechanistic transmission models, fit to different parameter assumptions

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: IBF

Intervention Assumptions: These projections do not make specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Combination of a mechanistic disease transmission model and a curve-fitting approach

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: IHME

Intervention Assumptions: Projections are adjusted to reflect differences in aggregate population mobility and community mitigation policies.

Hospitalization assumptions: Daily hospitalizations are estimated from predictions of daily deaths, using state hospitalization rates, where available.

Methods: Combination of a mechanistic disease transmission model and a curve-fitting approach

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: ISU

Intervention Assumptions: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Nonparametric spatiotemporal model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: IQVIA

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Spatiotemporal attention network model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: JCB

Intervention Assumptions: The incidence of COVID-19 in the population determines the strength of and resulting impact of control measures in the future.

Methods: Phenomenological statistical model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: JHU-APL

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Metapopulation SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: JHUAPL-Gecko

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: SARIMA time series model (1,1,0)x(1,1,0,7) with anomaly detector applied to confirmed hospital admissions since 09/01/2020.

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations

Model name: JHUAPLTDWG-ICATTML

Intervention Assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Ensemble of models forecasts provided with lagged data derived from the ICATT program, CELR tests, and wastewater surveillance.

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations

Model name: JHU-CSSE

Intervention Assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Machine learning

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: JHU-IDD

Intervention Assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Hospitalization Assumptions: Daily hospitalizations are estimated from predictions of daily cases. A standard proportion is applied to all states.

Methods: Metapopulation SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: JHU-UNC-Google

Intervention Assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: This forecast is an ensemble of two different models: A multiplicative growth model and a curve fitting model.

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: Karlen

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Hospitalization assumptions: The model uses state-specific hospitalization data. New hospitalizations are estimated from these data, or from the estimated number of new infections that will occur in each location.

Methods: Discrete time difference equations

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: LNQ

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Machine learning

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: Prolix

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Offsets obtained by correlations, best linear approximation of reproduction rates (using vaccination approximation) by least euclidean distance, and linear prediction.

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, and deaths

Model name: LSHTM

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: This forecast is an ensemble of three different models: A time-varying reproductive number-base model, a time series model based on numbers of deaths, and a time series model based on numbers of cases and deaths.

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: LANL

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes interventions in place on the first day of the forecast will remain in place for the next four weeks.

Hospitalization Assumptions: State demographics and age-group symptomatic case hospitalization rates are used to estimate the daily number of hospitalizations, based on estimates of the total number of infections.

Methods: Statistical dynamical growth model accounting for population susceptibility

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: LANL_NAU

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes interventions in place on the first day of the forecast will remain in place for the next four weeks.

Hospitalization Assumptions: None

Methods: Compartmental model consisting of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) describing the dynamics of 40 populations (state variables). The model quantified the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 transmission dynamics, and captures vaccination of susceptible and recovered persons and infected non-quarantined persons without symptoms at a time-varying per capita rate.

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: LUcompUncertLab

Intervention assumptions: None

Hospitalization Assumptions: None

Methods: A Bayesian Vector Auto Regression model

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: Masaryk

Intervention assumptions: The projections assume that current interventions will remain in place indefinitely.

Methods: An auto-regressive model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: MIT-Cassandra

Intervention Assumptions: The projections assume that current interventions will remain in place indefinitely.

Methods: This forecast is an ensemble of four different models: a Markov Decision Processes model, two different time series models, and C-SEIRD model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: MIT-CovAlliance

Intervention Assumptions: The projections assume that current interventions will remain in place indefinitely.

Methods: SIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: MIT-ISOLAT

Intervention Assumptions: The projections assume that current interventions will remain in place indefinitely.

Methods: Mixture model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: MIT-LCP

Intervention Assumptions: The projections assume that current interventions will remain in place indefinitely.

Methods: Machine learning

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: MIT-ORC

Intervention Assumptions: The projections assume that interventions will be reinstated if transmission reaches certain thresholds.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: Microsoft (formerly: MSRA)

Intervention Assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: SEIR model on a spatiotemporal network

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: MOBS

Intervention assumptions: The projections assume that social distancing policies in place at the date of calibration are extended for the future weeks.

Methods: Metapopulation, age-structured SLIR model

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations, deaths

Notre Dame University

Model names:

Intervention assumptions: These forecasts assume that population-level mobility is a reliable proxy for adherence to social distancing, and that recent trends in mobility will continue over the coming weeks.

Methods:

  • NotreDame-Mobility: SEIR model fit to data on deaths, test positivity, and population mobility
  • NotreDame-Fred: Agent-based model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: Oliver Wyman

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Time-dependent SIR model for detected and undetected cases

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: OneQuietNight

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Machine learning models.

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: PandemicCentral

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Random forest machine learning model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: PSI

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Stochastic SEIRX model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: PSI-DICE

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Hospitalizations

Model name: QJHong

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Machine learning using case data and mobility data

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: RPI-UW

Intervention assumptions: These projections calibrate the rate of transmission to the average rate of population mobility since the start of the epidemic and assume that this relationship will not change in the next four weeks.

Methods: SIR model fit to mobility data

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: ESG

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Fitting reported data to multiple skewed gaussian distributions

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: SignatureScience

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Autoregressive time-series model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: UpstateSU

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Machine learning

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: STH

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Statistical growth model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: CovidComplete

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: Statistical prediction model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: TTU

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward.

Methods: SIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: UA

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that current interventions will remain in effect for at least four weeks after the forecasts are made.

Methods: SIR model with data assimilation

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: UCLA

Intervention assumptions: This model assumes that contact rates will increase as states reopen. The increase in contact rates is calculated for each state.

Hospitalization Assumptions: The number of new hospitalizations per day are estimated from the number of infections, using state-specific hospitalization rates.

Methods: Modified SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: UCM

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: UCSD-NEU

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Age-structured metapopulation model with deep learning

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: UCSB

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Hospitalization Assumptions: The number of new hospitalizations per day are estimated from the number of infections, using state-specific hospitalization rates.

Methods: An attention mechanism (deep learning) time series model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: UCF

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: SEIR model informed with with ensemble neural networks

Forecasts submitted: Cases

University of Chicago (forecasts for Illinois only)

Model name: UChicago

Intervention assumptions: These forecasts assume that transmission rate will increase by 10% when stay-at-home policies are lifted.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: CUBoulder

Intervention assumptions: The projections assume that social distancing policies in place at the date of calibration are extended for the future weeks.

Methods: Our model is a stacked LSTM deep learning-based model using a multivariate time series input with a temporal lag of 9 weeks.

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: UGA-CEID

Intervention assumptions: The projections assume that social distancing policies in place at the date of calibration are extended for the future weeks.

Methods: Statistical random walk model

Forecasts submitted: Cases and deaths

University of Geneva / Swiss Data Science Center (one-week ahead forecasts only)

Model name: Geneva

Intervention assumptions: The projections assume that social distancing policies in place at the date of calibration are extended for the future weeks.

Methods: Exponential and linear statistical models fit to the recent growth rate of cumulative deaths

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model names: UMass-GBQ, UMass-MB, Ensemble, UMass-TE, UMass-sarix

Intervention assumptions:

  • UMass-GBQ: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.
  • UMass-MB: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.
  • Ensemble: The ensemble forecasts include all submitted forecasts, derived from models that assume certain social distancing measures will continue and models that assume those measures will not continue.
  • UMass-TE: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.
  • UMass-sarix: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods:

  • UMass-GBQ: Gradient boosting for the median, followed by conformal prediction to get quantiles.
  • UMass-MB: Mechanistic Bayesian compartment model.
  • Ensemble: The ensemble is a combination of 4 to 20 models, depending on the availability of forecasts for each location. To ensure consistency, the ensemble includes only models with 4 week-ahead forecasts.
  • UMass-TE: Trends Ensemble model.
  • UMass-sarix: Equally weighted ensemble of simple time-series baseline models. As of 2022-04-25, uses only past hospitalizations, no covariates.

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: UM

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Ridge regression

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: USC

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Hospitalization assumptions: The number of new hospitalizations per day are estimated from the number of infections.

Methods: SIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: UT

Intervention assumptions: This model estimates the extent of social distancing using geolocation data from mobile phones and assumes that the extent of social distancing does not change during the period of forecasting. The model is designed to predict confirmed COVID-19 deaths resulting from only a single wave of transmission.

Methods: Nonlinear Bayesian hierarchical regression with a negative-binomial model for daily variation in death rates

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: UVA

Intervention assumptions: There are two different assumptions influencing this ensemble model. Two of the three models assume that the effects of interventions are reflected in the observed data and will continue going forward, while the third model assumes that interventions will change in the future.

Methods: This forecast is an ensemble of three different models: An auto-regressive model, a machine learning (long short-memory) model, and a SEIR model.

Forecasts submitted: Cases

Model name: ERDC

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Hospitalization assumptions: The number of new hospitalizations per day are estimated from the number of infections, using state-specific hospitalization rates.

Methods: SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, hospitalizations, deaths

Model name: Walmart

Intervention assumptions: These projections do not make any specific assumptions about which interventions have been implemented or will remain in place.

Methods: Logistic growth

Forecasts submitted: Deaths

Model name: Wadhwani

Intervention assumptions: These projections assume that current interventions will not change during the forecasted period.

Methods: Bayesian SEIR model

Forecasts submitted: Cases, deaths

Model name: YYG

Intervention assumptions: The model accounts for individual state-by-state re-openings and responses to increasing cases and their impact on infections and deaths.

Methods: SEIR model with machine learning for parameter estimation

Forecasts submitted: Deaths