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About Code release for "Autoformer: Decomposition Transformers with Auto-Correlation for Long-Term Series Forecasting" (NeurIPS 2021), https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.13008
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--itr argument #108

Closed Niharikajo closed 1 year ago

Niharikajo commented 1 year ago

Hello,

I was trying multivariate forecasting using the Autoformer model.

In run.py there is an argument --itr

  1. Is it used when there is more than one script in the .sh file?

  2. I have a single script in the script(.sh) file, when I had given --itr as 2 the same experiment had repeated twice. However, I noticed that during the second round of testing, the error metrics were significantly lower. Can you please explain why?

Thank you Niharika Joshi

wuhaixu2016 commented 1 year ago

Hi, this argument is to repeat the experiments multiple times, and the paper, we repeat the experiments three times and report the averaged values.

So, I think in real-world applications, you can just fix the random see and set args.itr as 1.