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Re:A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting by remontoire on Friday February 02, 2024 @10:50PM (#39237388)
Probably drawing an analogy to how causal pretrained models go through stages of understanding language, words -> grammar -> meaning. Gwen mentions this experience when training character level RNNs. https://gwern.net/scaling-hypothesis#why-does-pretraining-wo...
Re:A decoder-only foundation model for time-series forecasting by horacemorace on Friday February 02, 2024 @11:09PM (#39237471)
Totally. Also basic temporal scale or cyclic properties. It’s kind of mind blowing that the shape of most recorded human patterns is reducible in this way.