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Add a multivariate wrapper around univariate models #1845

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felixdivo opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #1917
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Add a multivariate wrapper around univariate models #1845

felixdivo opened this issue Jun 21, 2023 · 3 comments · May be fixed by #1917
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@felixdivo
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Is your feature request related to a current problem? Please describe.
It is currently a bit cumbersome to evaluate both multi- and univariate models in a single setting. Suppose we have one/many multivariate time series at hand and want to forecast with a multivariate model and also with (a collection of) univariate ones, per variate independently. We currently need to maintain a list of this ourselves and if we are looking at a univarite model, loop over the variates.

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A wrapper around univariate models that applies fit()/predict()/... to the wrapped models, each per variate and else forwards most properties.

Describe potential alternatives
Have users implement it each time again.

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This is especially important if one wants to see how relvant the dynamics between multiple variates are. Related to #1844.
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Hi @felixdivo,

A similar wrapper is used for the sklearn based model (MultiOutputRegressor) in darts, and after discussing with @dennisbader, we agreed that it would be great to extend it to the other univariate models. Would you be willing to open a PR with the implementation that you seem to already have?

It will be quite important to document it so that it's very clear that in the "normal" multivariate prediction, the various target values will interact with each other whereas in "stacked" univariate prediction, they won't.

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Nice to hear that. And I agree that this should be clearly documented.

However, my current implementation is more of a hack (more or less just a simple loop) and not somthing that would fit here.

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Eventually, fit()ing such a model should optionally be parallelized. This is relevant since some local models (e.g. AutoARIMA and AutoThea) still take a fair bit of time to fit.

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