Summary
After having built a strong foundation on deep learning models in the last few chapters, we started to look at a new paradigm of global models in the context of deep learning models. We learned how to use PyTorch Forecasting
, an open source library for forecasting using deep learning, and used the feature-filled TimeSeriesDataset
to start developing our own models.
We started off with a very simple LSTM in the global context and saw how we can add time-varying information, static information, and the scale of individual time series to the features to make models better. We closed by looking at an alternating sampling procedure for mini-batches that helps us present a more balanced view of the problem in each batch. This chapter is by no means an exhaustive list of all such techniques to make the forecasting models better. Instead, this chapter aims to build the right kind of thinking that is necessary to work on your own models and make them work better than before.
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