How to Train Time Series Forecasting Faster Using Ray v1. Part 2 of 3.

Time Series Forecasting using Google’s Temporal Fusion Transformer LSTM version of RNN with PyTorch Forecasting and Torch Lightning

Christy Bergman
Towards Data Science
10 min readDec 23, 2021

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Displaying New York City Yellow Taxi ride volumes, with 1 week hourly forecast. Blue=observed, Orange=predicted, per validation dataset. Forecast generated using Google’s Temporal Fusion Transformer algorithm implemented by Pytorch forecasting, and parallelized by Ray for faster runtime, either on a laptop or on any cloud. Image by Author.

In Part 1, my previous blog explained how to apply the “ Embarrassingly Parallel “ pattern to speed up forecasting when each…

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