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Forecasting with an RNN

Setup


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import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import tensorflow as tf

keras = tf.keras

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def plot_series(time, series, format="-", start=0, end=None, label=None):
    plt.plot(time[start:end], series[start:end], format, label=label)
    plt.xlabel("Time")
    plt.ylabel("Value")
    if label:
        plt.legend(fontsize=14)
    plt.grid(True)
    
def trend(time, slope=0):
    return slope * time
  
  
def seasonal_pattern(season_time):
    """Just an arbitrary pattern, you can change it if you wish"""
    return np.where(season_time < 0.4,
                    np.cos(season_time * 2 * np.pi),
                    1 / np.exp(3 * season_time))

  
def seasonality(time, period, amplitude=1, phase=0):
    """Repeats the same pattern at each period"""
    season_time = ((time + phase) % period) / period
    return amplitude * seasonal_pattern(season_time)
  
  
def white_noise(time, noise_level=1, seed=None):
    rnd = np.random.RandomState(seed)
    return rnd.randn(len(time)) * noise_level
  
  
def window_dataset(series, window_size, batch_size=32,
                   shuffle_buffer=1000):
    dataset = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices(series)
    dataset = dataset.window(window_size + 1, shift=1, drop_remainder=True)
    dataset = dataset.flat_map(lambda window: window.batch(window_size + 1))
    dataset = dataset.shuffle(shuffle_buffer)
    dataset = dataset.map(lambda window: (window[:-1], window[-1]))
    dataset = dataset.batch(batch_size).prefetch(1)
    return dataset
  
def model_forecast(model, series, window_size):
    ds = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices(series)
    ds = ds.window(window_size, shift=1, drop_remainder=True)
    ds = ds.flat_map(lambda w: w.batch(window_size))
    ds = ds.batch(32).prefetch(1)
    forecast = model.predict(ds)
    return forecast

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time = np.arange(4 * 365 + 1)

slope = 0.05
baseline = 10
amplitude = 40
series = baseline + trend(time, slope) + seasonality(time, period=365, amplitude=amplitude)

noise_level = 5
noise = white_noise(time, noise_level, seed=42)

series += noise

plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
plot_series(time, series)
plt.show()

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split_time = 1000
time_train = time[:split_time]
x_train = series[:split_time]
time_valid = time[split_time:]
x_valid = series[split_time:]

Simple RNN Forecasting


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keras.backend.clear_session()
tf.random.set_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)

window_size = 30
train_set = window_dataset(x_train, window_size, batch_size=128)

model = keras.models.Sequential([
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: tf.expand_dims(x, axis=-1),
                      input_shape=[None]),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100),
  keras.layers.Dense(1),
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: x * 200.0)
])
lr_schedule = keras.callbacks.LearningRateScheduler(
    lambda epoch: 1e-7 * 10**(epoch / 20))
optimizer = keras.optimizers.SGD(lr=1e-7, momentum=0.9)
model.compile(loss=keras.losses.Huber(),
              optimizer=optimizer,
              metrics=["mae"])
history = model.fit(train_set, epochs=100, callbacks=[lr_schedule])

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plt.semilogx(history.history["lr"], history.history["loss"])
plt.axis([1e-7, 1e-4, 0, 30])

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keras.backend.clear_session()
tf.random.set_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)

window_size = 30
train_set = window_dataset(x_train, window_size, batch_size=128)
valid_set = window_dataset(x_valid, window_size, batch_size=128)

model = keras.models.Sequential([
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: tf.expand_dims(x, axis=-1),
                      input_shape=[None]),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100),
  keras.layers.Dense(1),
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: x * 200.0)
])
optimizer = keras.optimizers.SGD(lr=1.5e-6, momentum=0.9)
model.compile(loss=keras.losses.Huber(),
              optimizer=optimizer,
              metrics=["mae"])
early_stopping = keras.callbacks.EarlyStopping(patience=50)
model_checkpoint = keras.callbacks.ModelCheckpoint(
    "my_checkpoint", save_best_only=True)
model.fit(train_set, epochs=500,
          validation_data=valid_set,
          callbacks=[early_stopping, model_checkpoint])

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model = keras.models.load_model("my_checkpoint")

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rnn_forecast = model_forecast(
    model,
    series[split_time - window_size:-1],
    window_size)[:, 0]

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plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
plot_series(time_valid, x_valid)
plot_series(time_valid, rnn_forecast)

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keras.metrics.mean_absolute_error(x_valid, rnn_forecast).numpy()

Sequence-to-Sequence Forecasting


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def seq2seq_window_dataset(series, window_size, batch_size=32,
                           shuffle_buffer=1000):
    series = tf.expand_dims(series, axis=-1)
    ds = tf.data.Dataset.from_tensor_slices(series)
    ds = ds.window(window_size + 1, shift=1, drop_remainder=True)
    ds = ds.flat_map(lambda w: w.batch(window_size + 1))
    ds = ds.shuffle(shuffle_buffer)
    ds = ds.map(lambda w: (w[:-1], w[1:]))
    return ds.batch(batch_size).prefetch(1)

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for X_batch, Y_batch in seq2seq_window_dataset(tf.range(10), 3,
                                               batch_size=1):
    print("X:", X_batch.numpy())
    print("Y:", Y_batch.numpy())

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keras.backend.clear_session()
tf.random.set_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)

window_size = 30
train_set = seq2seq_window_dataset(x_train, window_size,
                                   batch_size=128)

model = keras.models.Sequential([
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True,
                         input_shape=[None, 1]),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True),
  keras.layers.Dense(1),
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: x * 200)
])
lr_schedule = keras.callbacks.LearningRateScheduler(
    lambda epoch: 1e-7 * 10**(epoch / 30))
optimizer = keras.optimizers.SGD(lr=1e-7, momentum=0.9)
model.compile(loss=keras.losses.Huber(),
              optimizer=optimizer,
              metrics=["mae"])
history = model.fit(train_set, epochs=100, callbacks=[lr_schedule])

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plt.semilogx(history.history["lr"], history.history["loss"])
plt.axis([1e-7, 1e-4, 0, 30])

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keras.backend.clear_session()
tf.random.set_seed(42)
np.random.seed(42)

window_size = 30
train_set = seq2seq_window_dataset(x_train, window_size,
                                   batch_size=128)
valid_set = seq2seq_window_dataset(x_valid, window_size,
                                   batch_size=128)

model = keras.models.Sequential([
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True,
                         input_shape=[None, 1]),
  keras.layers.SimpleRNN(100, return_sequences=True),
  keras.layers.Dense(1),
  keras.layers.Lambda(lambda x: x * 200.0)
])
optimizer = keras.optimizers.SGD(lr=1e-6, momentum=0.9)
model.compile(loss=keras.losses.Huber(),
              optimizer=optimizer,
              metrics=["mae"])
early_stopping = keras.callbacks.EarlyStopping(patience=10)
model.fit(train_set, epochs=500,
          validation_data=valid_set,
          callbacks=[early_stopping])

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rnn_forecast = model_forecast(model, series[..., np.newaxis], window_size)
rnn_forecast = rnn_forecast[split_time - window_size:-1, -1, 0]

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plt.figure(figsize=(10, 6))
plot_series(time_valid, x_valid)
plot_series(time_valid, rnn_forecast)

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keras.metrics.mean_absolute_error(x_valid, rnn_forecast).numpy()