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Time Series with PyTorch

Time Series with PyTorch

By : Graeme Davidson, Lei Ma
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Time Series with PyTorch

Time Series with PyTorch

By: Graeme Davidson, Lei Ma

Overview of this book

Neural networks are powerful tools for time-series forecasting, but applying them effectively requires both practical experience and a clear understanding of architectures, training strategies, and evaluation methods. This book brings these ideas together in a structured and practical way. Starting with PyTorch fundamentals, you will build neural networks from scratch and progress through recurrent networks, attention mechanisms, and transformers before exploring forecasting architectures such as N-BEATS, N-HiTS, and the Temporal Fusion Transformer. Along the way, you will learn robust hyperparameter tuning, conformal prediction for uncertainty estimation, and reliable evaluation practices. Unlike most forecasting books, this text also explores topics often overlooked or treated separately, including transfer learning across collections of series, synthetic data generation with diffusion models, and self-supervised representation learning. Beyond forecasting, later chapters cover classification, clustering, anomaly detection, and embeddings for large-scale time-series modeling. Throughout, the focus is pragmatic: theory is reinforced through experimentation and implementation so you can apply these methods confidently to real-world time-series problems.
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Contrastive predictive coding

Following the brief introduction of CPC in the previous section, apart from building up the contrast using predictions, as shown in Figure 18.2, another key component of CPC is the contrastive loss function—often implemented as the InfoNCE loss—which will be discussed in depth shortly.

Figure 18.2: The structure of CPC

Figure 18.2: The structure of CPC

A CPC model encodes the input time series, then predicts next time steps on the encoded representation. Since the context is built using an autoregressive method, each element actually contains historical information up to the most recent time step contained in the sliding window.

Imagine we are trying to find mature bananas among a bunch of mixed raw and mature bananas in a blurry photo. One strategy is to look at the color of bananas. We try to tune the colors of the photo so that the yellow bananas are more distinguishable from the green bananas, just by color. This is similar to the idea of InfoNCE loss...

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