# PatchTST ## Overview The PatchTST model was proposed in [A Time Series is Worth 64 Words: Long-term Forecasting with Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.14730) by Yuqi Nie, Nam H. Nguyen, Phanwadee Sinthong and Jayant Kalagnanam. At a high level the model vectorizes time series into patches of a given size and encodes the resulting sequence of vectors via a Transformer that then outputs the prediction length forecast via an appropriate head. The model is illustrated in the following figure:  The abstract from the paper is the following: *We propose an efficient design of Transformer-based models for multivariate time series forecasting and self-supervised representation learning. It is based on two key components: (i) segmentation of time series into subseries-level patches which are served as input tokens to Transformer; (ii) channel-independence where each channel contains a single univariate time series that shares the same embedding and Transformer weights across all the series. Patching design naturally has three-fold benefit: local semantic information is retained in the embedding; computation and memory usage of the attention maps are quadratically reduced given the same look-back window; and the model can attend longer history. Our channel-independent patch time series Transformer (PatchTST) can improve the long-term forecasting accuracy significantly when compared with that of SOTA Transformer-based models. We also apply our model to self-supervised pre-training tasks and attain excellent fine-tuning performance, which outperforms supervised training on large datasets. Transferring of masked pre-trained representation on one dataset to others also produces SOTA forecasting accuracy.* This model was contributed by [namctin](https://huggingface.co/namctin), [gsinthong](https://huggingface.co/gsinthong), [diepi](https://huggingface.co/diepi), [vijaye12](https://huggingface.co/vijaye12), [wmgifford](https://huggingface.co/wmgifford), and [kashif](https://huggingface.co/kashif). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/yuqinie98/PatchTST). ## Usage tips The model can also be used for time series classification and time series regression. See the respective [`PatchTSTForClassification`] and [`PatchTSTForRegression`] classes. ## PatchTSTConfig [[autodoc]] PatchTSTConfig ## PatchTSTModel [[autodoc]] PatchTSTModel - forward ## PatchTSTForPrediction [[autodoc]] PatchTSTForPrediction - forward ## PatchTSTForClassification [[autodoc]] PatchTSTForClassification - forward ## PatchTSTForPretraining [[autodoc]] PatchTSTForPretraining - forward ## PatchTSTForRegression [[autodoc]] PatchTSTForRegression - forward