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Deep Learning for Time Series Cookbook

By : Vitor Cerqueira, Luís Roque
Book Image

Deep Learning for Time Series Cookbook

By: Vitor Cerqueira, Luís Roque

Overview of this book

Most organizations exhibit a time-dependent structure in their processes, including fields such as finance. By leveraging time series analysis and forecasting, these organizations can make informed decisions and optimize their performance. Accurate forecasts help reduce uncertainty and enable better planning of operations. Unlike traditional approaches to forecasting, deep learning can process large amounts of data and help derive complex patterns. Despite its increasing relevance, getting the most out of deep learning requires significant technical expertise. This book guides you through applying deep learning to time series data with the help of easy-to-follow code recipes. You’ll cover time series problems, such as forecasting, anomaly detection, and classification. This deep learning book will also show you how to solve these problems using different deep neural network architectures, including convolutional neural networks (CNNs) or transformers. As you progress, you’ll use PyTorch, a popular deep learning framework based on Python to build production-ready prediction solutions. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to solve different time series tasks with deep learning using the PyTorch ecosystem.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Training a DeepAR model with GluonTS

DeepAR is a state-of-the-art forecasting method that utilizes autoregressive recurrent networks to predict future values of time series data. Amazon introduced it; it was designed for forecasting tasks that can benefit from longer horizons, such as demand forecasting. The method is particularly powerful when there’s a need to generate forecasts for multiple related time series.

Getting ready

We’ll use the same dataset as in the previous recipe:

from gluonts.dataset.repository.datasets import get_dataset
dataset = get_dataset("nn5_daily_without_missing", regenerate=False)

Now, let’s see how to build a DeepAR model with this data.

How to do it…

We start by formatting the data for training:

  1. Let’s do this by using the ListDataset data structure:
    from gluonts.dataset.common import ListDataset
    from gluonts.dataset.common import FieldName
    train_ds = ListDataset(
        ...