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在本教程中,我们将使用PyTorch-LSTM进行深度学习时间序列预测。
时间序列是指在一段时间内发生的任何可量化的度量或事件。尽管这听起来微不足道,但几乎任何东西都可以被认为是时间序列。一个月里你每小时的平均心率,一年里一只股票的日收盘价,一年里某个城市每周发生的交通事故数。在任何一段时间段内记录这些信息都被认为是一个时间序列。对于这些例子中的每一个,都有事件发生的频率(每天、每周、每小时等)和事件发生的时间长度(一个月、一年、一天等)。
我们的目标是接收一个值序列,预测该序列中的下一个值。最简单的方法是使用自回归模型,我们将专注于使用LSTM来解决这个问题。
让我们看一个时间序列样本。下图显示了2013年至2018年石油价格的一些数据。
这只是一个日期轴上单个数字序列的图。下表显示了这个时间序列的前10个条目。每天都有价格数据。
date dcoilwtico
2013-01-01 NaN
2013-01-02 93.14
2013-01-03 92.97
2013-01-04 93.12
2013-01-07 93.20
2013-01-08 93.21
2013-01-09 93.08
2013-01-10 93.81
2013-01-11 93.60
2013-01-14 94.27
许多机器学习模型在标准化数据上的表现要好得多。标准化数据的标准方法是对数据进行转换,使得每一列的均值为0,标准差为1。下面的代码scikit-learn进行标准化:
from sklearn.preprocessing import StandardScaler
# Fit scalers
scalers = {}
for x in df.columns:
scalers[x] = StandardScaler().fit(df[x].values.reshape(-1, 1))
# Transform data via scalers
norm_df = df.copy()
for i, key in enumerate(scalers.keys()):
norm = scalers[key].transform(norm_df.iloc[:, i].values.reshape(-1, 1))
norm_df.iloc[:, i] = norm
我们还希望数据具有统一的频率——在这个例子中,有这5年里每天的石油价格,如果你的数据情况并非如此,Pandas有几种不同的方法来重新采样数据以适应统一的频率,请参考我们公众号以前的文章
对于训练数据我们需要将完整的时间序列数据截取成固定长度的序列。假设我们有一个序列:[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]。
通过选择长度为 3 的序列,我们可以生成以下序列及其相关目标:
[Sequence] Target
[1, 2, 3] → 4
[2, 3, 4] → 5
[3, 4, 5] → 6
或者说我们定义了为了预测下一个值需要回溯多少步。我们将这个值称为训练窗口,而要预测的值的数量称为预测窗口。在这个例子中,它们分别是3和1。下面的函数详细说明了这是如何完成的。
# Defining a function that creates sequences and targets as shown above
def generate_sequences(df: pd.DataFrame, tw: int, pw: int, target_columns,drop_targets=False):
'''
df: Pandas DataFrame of the univariate time-series
tw: Training Window - Integer defining how many steps to look back
pw: Prediction Window - Integer defining how many steps forward to predict
returns: dictionary of sequences and targets for all sequences
'''
data = dict() # Store results into a dictionary
L = len(df)
for i in range(L-tw):
# Option to drop target from dataframe
if drop_targets:
df.drop(target_columns, axis=1, inplace=True)
# Get current sequence
sequence = df[i:i+tw].values
# Get values right after the current sequence
target = df[i+tw:i+tw+pw][target_columns].values
data[i] = {'sequence': sequence, 'target': target}
return data
这样我们就可以在PyTorch中使用Dataset类自定义数据集
class SequenceDataset(Dataset):
def __init__(self, df):
self.data = df
def __getitem__(self, idx):
sample = self.data[idx]
return torch.Tensor(sample['sequence']), torch.Tensor(sample['target'])
def __len__(self):
return len(self.data)
然后,我们可以使用PyTorch DataLoader来遍历数据。使用DataLoader的好处是它在内部自动进行批处理和数据的打乱,所以我们不必自己实现它,代码如下:
# Here we are defining properties for our model
BATCH_SIZE = 16 # Training batch size
split = 0.8 # Train/Test Split ratio
sequences = generate_sequences(norm_df.dcoilwtico.to_frame(), sequence_len, nout,'dcoilwtico')
dataset = SequenceDataset(sequences)
# Split the data according to our split ratio and load each subset into a
# separate DataLoader object
train_len = int(len(dataset)*split)
lens = [train_len, len(dataset)-train_len]
train_ds, test_ds = random_split(dataset, lens)
trainloader = DataLoader(train_ds, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True, drop_last=True)
testloader = DataLoader(test_ds, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True, drop_last=True)
在每次迭代中,DataLoader将产生16个(批量大小)序列及其相关目标,我们将这些目标传递到模型中。
我们将使用一个单独的LSTM层,然后是模型的回归部分的一些线性层,当然在它们之间还有dropout层。该模型将为每个训练输入输出单个值。
class LSTMForecaster(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, n_features, n_hidden, n_outputs, sequence_len, n_lstm_layers=1,n_deep_layers=10, use_cuda=False, dropout=0.2):
'''
n_features: number of input features (1 for univariate forecasting)
n_hidden: number of neurons in each hidden layer
n_outputs: number of outputs to predict for each training example
n_deep_layers: number of hidden dense layers after the lstm layer
sequence_len: number of steps to look back at for prediction
dropout: float (0 < dropout < 1) dropout ratio between dense layers
'''
super().__init__()
self.n_lstm_layers = n_lstm_layers
self.nhid = n_hidden
self.use_cuda = use_cuda # set option for device selection
# LSTM Layer
self.lstm = nn.LSTM(n_features,
n_hidden,
num_layers=n_lstm_layers,
batch_first=True) # As we have transformed our data in this way
# first dense after lstm
self.fc1 = nn.Linear(n_hidden * sequence_len, n_hidden)
# Dropout layer
self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p=dropout)
# Create fully connected layers (n_hidden x n_deep_layers)
dnn_layers = []
for i in range(n_deep_layers):
# Last layer (n_hidden x n_outputs)
if i == n_deep_layers - 1:
dnn_layers.append(nn.ReLU())
dnn_layers.append(nn.Linear(nhid, n_outputs))
# All other layers (n_hidden x n_hidden) with dropout option
else:
dnn_layers.append(nn.ReLU())
dnn_layers.append(nn.Linear(nhid, nhid))
if dropout:
dnn_layers.append(nn.Dropout(p=dropout))
# compile DNN layers
self.dnn = nn.Sequential(*dnn_layers)
def forward(self, x):
# Initialize hidden state
hidden_state = torch.zeros(self.n_lstm_layers, x.shape[0], self.nhid)
cell_state = torch.zeros(self.n_lstm_layers, x.shape[0], self.nhid)
# move hidden state to device
if self.use_cuda:
hidden_state = hidden_state.to(device)
cell_state = cell_state.to(device)
self.hidden = (hidden_state, cell_state)
# Forward Pass
x, h = self.lstm(x, self.hidden) # LSTM
x = self.dropout(x.contiguous().view(x.shape[0], -1)) # Flatten lstm out
x = self.fc1(x) # First Dense
return self.dnn(x) # Pass forward through fully connected DNN.
我们设置了2个可以自由地调优的参数n_hidden和n_deep_players。更大的参数意味着模型更复杂和更长的训练时间,所以这里我们可以使用这两个参数灵活调整。
剩下的参数如下:sequence_len指的是训练窗口,nout定义了要预测多少步;将sequence_len设置为180,nout设置为1,意味着模型将查看180天(半年)后的情况,以预测明天将发生什么。
nhid = 50 # Number of nodes in the hidden layer
n_dnn_layers = 5 # Number of hidden fully connected layers
nout = 1 # Prediction Window
sequence_len = 180 # Training Window
# Number of features (since this is a univariate timeseries we'll set
# this to 1 -- multivariate analysis is coming in the future)
ninp = 1
# Device selection (CPU | GPU)
USE_CUDA = torch.cuda.is_available()
device = 'cuda' if USE_CUDA else 'cpu'
# Initialize the model
model = LSTMForecaster(ninp, nhid, nout, sequence_len, n_deep_layers=n_dnn_layers,use_cuda=USE_CUDA).to(device)
定义好模型后,我们可以选择损失函数和优化器,设置学习率和周期数,并开始我们的训练循环。由于这是一个回归问题(即我们试图预测一个连续值),最简单也是最安全的损失函数是均方误差。这提供了一种稳健的方法来计算实际值和模型预测值之间的误差。
优化器和损失函数如下:
# Set learning rate and number of epochs to train over
lr = 4e-4
n_epochs = 20
# Initialize the loss function and optimizer
criterion = nn.MSELoss().to(device)
optimizer = torch.optim.AdamW(model.parameters(), lr=lr)
下面就是训练循环的代码:在每次训练迭代中,我们将计算之前创建的训练集和验证集的损失:
# Lists to store training and validation losses
t_losses, v_losses = [], []
# Loop over epochs
for epoch in range(n_epochs):
train_loss, valid_loss = 0.0, 0.0
# train step
model.train()
# Loop over train dataset
for x, y in trainloader:
optimizer.zero_grad()
# move inputs to device
x = x.to(device)
y = y.squeeze().to(device)
# Forward Pass
preds = model(x).squeeze()
loss = criterion(preds, y) # compute batch loss
train_loss += loss.item()
loss.backward()
optimizer.step()
epoch_loss = train_loss / len(trainloader)
t_losses.append(epoch_loss)
# validation step
model.eval()
# Loop over validation dataset
for x, y in testloader:
with torch.no_grad():
x, y = x.to(device), y.squeeze().to(device)
preds = model(x).squeeze()
error = criterion(preds, y)
valid_loss += error.item()
valid_loss = valid_loss / len(testloader)
v_losses.append(valid_loss)
print(f'{epoch} - train: {epoch_loss}, valid: {valid_loss}')
plot_losses(t_losses, v_losses)
这样模型已经训练好了,可以评估预测了。
我们调用训练过的模型来预测未打乱的数据,并比较预测与真实观察有多大不同。
def make_predictions_from_dataloader(model, unshuffled_dataloader):
model.eval()
predictions, actuals = [], []
for x, y in unshuffled_dataloader:
with torch.no_grad():
p = model(x)
predictions.append(p)
actuals.append(y.squeeze())
predictions = torch.cat(predictions).numpy()
actuals = torch.cat(actuals).numpy()
return predictions.squeeze(), actuals
我们的预测看起来还不错!预测的效果还可以,表明我们没有过度拟合模型,让我们看看能否用它来预测未来。
如果我们将历史定义为预测时刻之前的序列,算法很简单:
从历史(训练窗口长度)中获取最新的有效序列。
将最新的序列输入模型并预测下一个值。
将预测值附加到历史记录上。
迭代重复步骤1。
这里需要注意的是,根据训练模型时选择的参数,你预测的越长(远),模型就越容易表现出它自己的偏差,开始预测平均值。因此,如果没有必要,我们不希望总是预测得太超前,因为这会影响预测的准确性。
这在下面的函数中实现:
def one_step_forecast(model, history):
'''
model: PyTorch model object
history: a sequence of values representing the latest values of the time
series, requirement -> len(history.shape) == 2
outputs a single value which is the prediction of the next value in the
sequence.
'''
model.cpu()
model.eval()
with torch.no_grad():
pre = torch.Tensor(history).unsqueeze(0)
pred = self.model(pre)
return pred.detach().numpy().reshape(-1)
def n_step_forecast(data: pd.DataFrame, target: str, tw: int, n: int, forecast_from: int=None, plot=False):
'''
n: integer defining how many steps to forecast
forecast_from: integer defining which index to forecast from. None if
you want to forecast from the end.
plot: True if you want to output a plot of the forecast, False if not.
'''
history = data[target].copy().to_frame()
# Create initial sequence input based on where in the series to forecast
# from.
if forecast_from:
pre = list(history[forecast_from - tw : forecast_from][target].values)
else:
pre = list(history[self.target])[-tw:]
# Call one_step_forecast n times and append prediction to history
for i, step in enumerate(range(n)):
pre_ = np.array(pre[-tw:]).reshape(-1, 1)
forecast = self.one_step_forecast(pre_).squeeze()
pre.append(forecast)
# The rest of this is just to add the forecast to the correct time of
# the history series
res = history.copy()
ls = [np.nan for i in range(len(history))]
# Note: I have not handled the edge case where the start index + n is
# before the end of the dataset and crosses past it.
if forecast_from:
ls[forecast_from : forecast_from + n] = list(np.array(pre[-n:]))
res['forecast'] = ls
res.columns = ['actual', 'forecast']
else:
fc = ls + list(np.array(pre[-n:]))
ls = ls + [np.nan for i in range(len(pre[-n:]))]
ls[:len(history)] = history[self.target].values
res = pd.DataFrame([ls, fc], index=['actual', 'forecast']).T
return res
我们来看看实际的效果。
我们在这个时间序列的中间从不同的地方进行预测,这样我们就可以将预测与实际发生的情况进行比较。我们的预测程序,可以从任何地方对任何合理数量的步骤进行预测,红线表示预测。(这些图表显示的是y轴上的标准化后的价格)
预测2013年第三季度后200天
预测2014/15 后200天
从2016年第一季度开始预测200天
从数据的最后一天开始预测200天
我们这个模型表现的还算一般!但是我们通过这个示例完整的介绍了时间序列预测的全部过程,我们可以通过尝试架构和参数的调整使模型变得得更好,预测得更准确。
本文只处理单变量时间序列,其中只有一个值序列。还有一些方法可以使用多个系列来进行预测。这被称为多元时间序列预测,我将在以后的文章中介绍。
本文的代码在这里:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZzxQISX0519T347j3Sx71iHKsdYDOzcl/view?usp=sharing
编辑:王菁