Last Updated on August 28, 2020 The Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network in Keras supports multiple input features. This raises the question as to whether lag observations for a univariate time series can be used as features for an LSTM and whether or not this improves forecast performance. In this tutorial, we will investigate the use of lag observations as features in LSTM models in Python. After completing this tutorial, you will know: How to develop a test harness to […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 The Keras Python deep learning library supports both stateful and stateless Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks. When using stateful LSTM networks, we have fine-grained control over when the internal state of the LSTM network is reset. Therefore, it is important to understand different ways of managing this internal state when fitting and making predictions with LSTM networks affect the skill of the network. In this tutorial, you will explore the performance of stateful and […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 Some neural network configurations can result in an unstable model. This can make them hard to characterize and compare to other model configurations on the same problem using descriptive statistics. One good example of a seemingly unstable model is the use of online learning (a batch size of 1) for a stateful Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model. In this tutorial, you will discover how to explore the results of a stateful LSTM fit using […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 It can be difficult when starting out on a new predictive modeling project with neural networks. There is so much to configure, and no clear idea where to start. It is important to be systematic. You can break bad assumptions and quickly hone in on configurations that work and areas for further investigation likely to payoff. In this tutorial, you will discover how to use exploratory configuration of multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural networks to […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models are a type of recurrent neural network capable of learning sequences of observations. This may make them a network well suited to time series forecasting. An issue with LSTMs is that they can easily overfit training data, reducing their predictive skill. Dropout is a regularization method where input and recurrent connections to LSTM units are probabilistically excluded from activation and weight updates while training a network. This has the […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) models are a recurrent neural network capable of learning sequences of observations. This may make them a network well suited to time series forecasting. An issue with LSTMs is that they can easily overfit training data, reducing their predictive skill. Weight regularization is a technique for imposing constraints (such as L1 or L2) on the weights within LSTM nodes. This has the effect of reducing overfitting and improving model performance. […]

Last Updated on August 28, 2020 The Long Short-Term Memory network or LSTM is a recurrent neural network that can learn and forecast long sequences. A benefit of LSTMs in addition to learning long sequences is that they can learn to make a one-shot multi-step forecast which may be useful for time series forecasting. A difficulty with LSTMs is that they can be tricky to configure and it can require a lot of preparation to get the data in the […]