Multi step ahead forecasting with LSTM

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How to perform multi-step ahead forecasting with LSTM. I want to predict 2,3, and 4 time stesp ahead prediction with LSTM?
Please help. Thanks in advance.
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Nikolaos Efkarpidis
Nikolaos Efkarpidis on 13 Jan 2021
Dear,
How did you finally perform multi-step ahead forecasting with LSTM and predictAndUpdateState ?
I am also struggling with this issue.
Best regards,
Nick
Raziye Ghasemi
Raziye Ghasemi on 22 Nov 2023

How did you finally perform multi-step ahead forecasting with LSTM and predictAndUpdateState ? I am also struggling with this issue.

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adel adel
adel adel on 25 May 2020
Forecasting is basicaly sequence-to-sequence regression, let suppos that your entire sequence is data,
1. You divide data into train and test parts, you can specify the proportion as you wish:
numTimeStepsTrain = floor(0.9*numel(data));% 90% for training 10%for testing
dataTrain = data(1:numTimeStepsTrain+1);
dataTest = data(numTimeStepsTrain+1:end);
2. Preparing training data and response sequences by shifting data by one time step, such as for data(t) the response will be data(t+1)
XTrain = dataTrain(1:end-1);
YTrain = dataTrain(2:end);
3. Preparing the network and training hyperparameters, then train the network using training data and training responses
numFeatures = 1;
numResponses = 1;
numHiddenUnits = 200;
layers = [ ...
sequenceInputLayer(numFeatures)
lstmLayer(numHiddenUnits)
fullyConnectedLayer(numResponses)
regressionLayer];
options = trainingOptions('adam', ...
'MaxEpochs',250, ...
'GradientThreshold',1, ...
'InitialLearnRate',0.005, ...
'Verbose',0, ...
'Plots','training-progress');
net = trainNetwork(XTrain,YTrain,layers,options);
3. Now you can forecast 1, 2, 3 or 4 steps ahead using predictAndUpdateState function, since you use predicted values to update the network state and you don’t use actual values contained in dataTest for this, you can make predictions on any time step number
net = predictAndUpdateState(net,XTrain);
[net,YPred] = predictAndUpdateState(net,YTrain(end));
stepsAhead = 4; % you can use 1,2,3,4 on any value of steps ahead
for i = 2:stepsAhead+1
[net,YPred(:,i)] = predictAndUpdateState(net,YPred(:,i-1));
end
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Gordon Elgin
Gordon Elgin on 25 Aug 2023
I have a question. I know that you can predict multi-time steps. However, how do we input say 5 timesteps to predict 1 time step ahead.

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David Willingham
David Willingham on 28 Mar 2022
Hi,
Please see this updated example in R2022a that shows multi-step ahead (closed loop) predictions:

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