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N-HiTS (Neural Hierarchical Interpolation)

Hierarchical neural forecasting architecture incorporating multi-rate input sampling and non-linear interpolation, dramatically outperforming Transformers on long horizons.

Pure Neural Forecasting Architecturetime-series-forecastinghigh-intrinsiclarge (>100k)
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Computational Complexity
Training Complexity:O(epochs * batch_size * blocks * downsampled_MLP)
Inference Complexity:O(downsampled_MLP)
Hardware Profile
CPU Friendly:Yes
Requires GPU:Yes
Memory Footprint:low
Interpretability & Data
Interpretability Tier:high-intrinsic
Training Data Needs:large (>100k)

Interpretability Assessment

Multi-rate pooling enforces that slow stacks synthesize low-frequency macro trend while fast stacks capture high-frequency ripples.

Suitable Tasks & Supported Modalities

Suitable Tasks:
long horizon forecastinghigh frequency telemetry
Supported Modalities:
time-series

Implementing Libraries

NeuralForecastNixtla · v1.7.4
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DartsUnit8 · v0.30.0
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Foundational Literature

Common Pitfalls & Warnings
  • Subsampling too aggressively in the final block causes aliasing artifacts and loss of sharp step-transitions