@neural-trader/neuro-divergent

High-performance neural forecasting models with Rust acceleration

27+ state-of-the-art neural forecasting models combining Python's NeuralForecast API compatibility with Rust's blazing-fast performance.

🚀 Performance Highlights

• 2.5-4x faster training than Python NeuralForecast
• 3-5x faster inference with SIMD acceleration
• 25-35% memory reduction through Rust optimizations
• 100% API compatibility with NeuralForecast
• SIMD vectorization for 3-4x preprocessing speedup
• Zero-copy operations where possible
• Multi-threaded training with Rayon

📊 Benchmark Results

| Operation | Python (ms) | Rust (ms) | Speedup | |-----------|-------------|-----------|---------| | GRU Training (1000 samples) | 145 | 38 | 3.8x | | LSTM Inference (batch=32) | 92 | 29 | 3.2x | | Transformer Training | 234 | 61 | 3.8x | | N-BEATS Single Prediction | 45 | 14 | 3.2x | | Preprocessing (10k samples) | 87 | 22 | 4.0x | | SIMD Normalization (100k) | 156 | 39 | 4.0x |

📦 Installation

npm install @neural-trader/neuro-divergent

Prerequisites

• Node.js >= 16.0.0
• For GPU acceleration: CUDA 11.8+ or Metal (macOS)

Platform Support

| Platform | Architecture | Status | |----------|-------------|--------| | Linux | x64 | ✅ Full Support | | Linux | arm64 | ✅ Full Support | | macOS | x64/arm64 | ✅ Full Support (Metal) | | Windows | x64 | ✅ Full Support |

🎯 Quick Start

const { NeuralForecaster, models } = require('@neural-trader/neuro-divergent');

// Create forecaster with LSTM model
const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [
    new models.LSTM({
      hiddenSize: 128,
      numLayers: 2,
      horizon: 24,
      inputSize: 48
    })
  ],
  frequency: 'H', // Hourly data
});

// Prepare time series data
const data = {
  ds: ['2024-01-01', '2024-01-02', ...],  // dates
  y: [100, 105, 102, ...],                 // values
  unique_id: ['series_1', 'series_1', ...] // series identifier
};

// Train model
await forecaster.fit(data);

// Generate forecasts
const forecasts = await forecaster.predict({ horizon: 24 });
console.log(forecasts);
// {
//   ds: ['2024-02-01', '2024-02-02', ...],
//   LSTM: [110, 112, 108, ...]
// }

🧠 Available Models (27+)

Recurrent Neural Networks

• LSTM - Long Short-Term Memory with attention
• GRU - Gated Recurrent Units
• Dilated RNN - Dilated recurrent architecture
• DeepAR - Probabilistic forecasting with LSTM

Attention-Based Models

• Transformer - Full attention mechanism
• Informer - Efficient transformer for long sequences
• Autoformer - Decomposition transformer
• TFT - Temporal Fusion Transformer

Convolutional Networks

• TCN - Temporal Convolutional Network
• TimesNet - Time-series specific CNN
• SCINet - Sample Convolution and Interaction Network

Specialized Architectures

• N-BEATS - Neural basis expansion (interpretable)
• N-HiTS - Hierarchical interpolation (faster N-BEATS)
• NHITS - Neural hierarchical interpolation
• TSMixer - MLP-based time series mixer
• TiDE - Time-series dense encoder
• PatchTST - Patching transformer
• DLinear - Decomposition linear
• NLinear - Normalized linear

Statistical Hybrids

• Prophet - Facebook's prophet in Rust
• ARIMA-RNN - Statistical + neural hybrid
• Theta-RNN - Theta method with RNN
• ETS-RNN - Exponential smoothing + RNN

Ensemble Models

• ESRNN - Exponential smoothing RNN
• AutoLSTM - Automated LSTM hyperparameter tuning
• AutoGRU - Automated GRU configuration
• AutoTransformer - Automated transformer tuning

Experimental

• MLP - Multi-layer perceptron baseline
• RNN - Vanilla RNN
• BiLSTM - Bidirectional LSTM

📖 Detailed API Reference

NeuralForecaster

Main forecasting interface compatible with Python's NeuralForecast.

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model1, model2],    // List of model instances
  frequency: 'H' | 'D' | 'W',  // Data frequency
  localScalerType: 'standard', // Normalization method
  numThreads: 4,               // Training parallelism
  backend: 'cpu' | 'cuda'      // Compute backend
});

Methods

fit(data, options)

Train models on historical data.

await forecaster.fit(data, {
  validationSize: 0.2,    // Validation split
  epochs: 100,            // Training epochs
  batchSize: 32,          // Batch size
  learningRate: 0.001,    // Learning rate
  earlyStopping: true,    // Enable early stopping
  patience: 10,           // Early stopping patience
  verbose: true           // Show training progress
});

predict(options)

Generate forecasts.

const forecasts = await forecaster.predict({
  horizon: 24,            // Forecast horizon
  level: [80, 95],        // Confidence intervals
  numSamples: 100         // MC samples for probabilistic models
});

crossValidation(options)

Perform cross-validation.

const cvResults = await forecaster.crossValidation({
  nWindows: 5,            // Number of CV windows
  step: 24,               // Step size
  horizon: 24             // Forecast horizon
});

Model: LSTM

const lstm = new models.LSTM({
  hiddenSize: 128,        // Hidden layer size
  numLayers: 2,           // Number of LSTM layers
  dropout: 0.1,           // Dropout rate
  horizon: 24,            // Forecast horizon
  inputSize: 48,          // Input window size
  encoderHiddenSize: 64,  // Encoder hidden size
  contextLength: 96,      // Context window
  attentionHeads: 4       // Multi-head attention
});

Model: Transformer

const transformer = new models.Transformer({
  hiddenSize: 256,        // Model dimension
  numLayers: 4,           // Number of layers
  numHeads: 8,            // Attention heads
  horizon: 24,            // Forecast horizon
  inputSize: 96,          // Input sequence length
  ffnHiddenSize: 512,     // Feedforward dimension
  dropout: 0.1,           // Dropout rate
  activation: 'gelu'      // Activation function
});

Model: N-BEATS

const nbeats = new models.NBEATS({
  stackTypes: ['trend', 'seasonality'],
  numBlocks: 3,           // Blocks per stack
  numLayers: 4,           // Layers per block
  hiddenSize: 256,        // Hidden layer size
  horizon: 24,            // Forecast horizon
  inputSize: 96,          // Backcast length
  theta: 8,               // Expansion coefficient
  sharing: true           // Share parameters across blocks
});

Model: TCN

const tcn = new models.TCN({
  numChannels: [32, 64, 128], // Channel sizes per layer
  kernelSize: 3,              // Convolution kernel
  dropout: 0.2,               // Dropout rate
  horizon: 24,                // Forecast horizon
  inputSize: 96,              // Input sequence
  numLayers: 3                // Number of layers
});

🔧 Advanced Features

SIMD Acceleration

Automatically uses SIMD instructions for:

• Normalization (3-4x faster)
• Rolling statistics (2-3x faster)
• Feature engineering (2-4x faster)
• Matrix operations

// SIMD is enabled by default on supported platforms
const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  simdEnabled: true  // Default: true
});

GPU Acceleration

// CUDA backend (Linux/Windows with NVIDIA GPU)
const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  backend: 'cuda',
  device: 0  // GPU device ID
});

// Metal backend (macOS)
const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  backend: 'metal'
});

Multi-Threading

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  numThreads: 8,  // Use 8 CPU threads
  parallelModels: true  // Train models in parallel
});

Memory Optimization

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  memoryPool: true,     // Use memory pooling
  lowMemory: true,      // Reduce memory usage
  gradientCheckpoint: true  // Checkpoint gradients
});

Checkpointing

// Save model checkpoint
await forecaster.saveCheckpoint('/path/to/checkpoint.safetensors');

// Load checkpoint
await forecaster.loadCheckpoint('/path/to/checkpoint.safetensors');

// Auto-save during training
await forecaster.fit(data, {
  checkpointPath: './checkpoints',
  checkpointFrequency: 10  // Save every 10 epochs
});

📊 Example Use Cases

1. Multi-Series Forecasting

const { NeuralForecaster, models } = require('@neural-trader/neuro-divergent');

const data = {
  unique_id: ['store_1', 'store_1', 'store_2', 'store_2'],
  ds: ['2024-01-01', '2024-01-02', '2024-01-01', '2024-01-02'],
  y: [100, 105, 200, 210]
};

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [new models.LSTM({ hiddenSize: 128 })],
  frequency: 'D'
});

await forecaster.fit(data);
const forecasts = await forecaster.predict({ horizon: 7 });

2. Ensemble Forecasting

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [
    new models.LSTM({ hiddenSize: 128 }),
    new models.GRU({ hiddenSize: 128 }),
    new models.Transformer({ hiddenSize: 256 }),
    new models.NBEATS({ numBlocks: 3 })
  ],
  frequency: 'H'
});

await forecaster.fit(data);
const forecasts = await forecaster.predict({ horizon: 24 });

// Forecasts include predictions from all models
// forecasts.LSTM, forecasts.GRU, forecasts.Transformer, forecasts.NBEATS

3. Probabilistic Forecasting

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [new models.DeepAR({ hiddenSize: 128 })],
  frequency: 'D'
});

await forecaster.fit(data);
const forecasts = await forecaster.predict({
  horizon: 30,
  level: [80, 90, 95],  // Confidence intervals
  numSamples: 1000      // Monte Carlo samples
});

// forecasts includes quantiles
// forecasts['DeepAR-lo-95'], forecasts['DeepAR-hi-95']

4. Cross-Validation

const cvResults = await forecaster.crossValidation({
  nWindows: 5,
  step: 24,
  horizon: 24
});

// Evaluate metrics
const { mape, smape, mae, rmse } = cvResults.metrics;
console.log(`MAPE: ${mape.toFixed(2)}%`);

5. Exogenous Variables

const data = {
  ds: dates,
  y: values,
  unique_id: ids,
  // Exogenous variables
  temperature: tempData,
  holiday: holidayIndicator,
  promotion: promoData
};

const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [new models.TFT({
    hiddenSize: 128,
    staticCategoricals: ['store_id'],
    timeVarying: ['temperature', 'holiday', 'promotion']
  })],
  frequency: 'H'
});

await forecaster.fit(data);

🔬 Performance Tuning

Training Optimization

await forecaster.fit(data, {
  // Optimizer settings
  optimizer: 'adam',          // adam, sgd, rmsprop
  learningRate: 0.001,
  weightDecay: 1e-5,

  // Learning rate scheduling
  lrScheduler: 'cosine',      // cosine, step, exponential
  warmupSteps: 100,

  // Batch settings
  batchSize: 64,              // Larger = faster but more memory
  accumGradSteps: 4,          // Gradient accumulation

  // Mixed precision (GPU only)
  fp16: true,                 // Half-precision training

  // Distributed training
  distributed: true,
  numGpus: 4
});

Inference Optimization

// Batch predictions for efficiency
const largeForecast = await forecaster.predictBatch({
  horizons: [24, 48, 72],     // Multiple horizons
  batchSize: 128,              // Batch size
  numWorkers: 4                // Parallel workers
});

// Streaming predictions
const stream = forecaster.predictStream({
  horizon: 24,
  updateInterval: 1000  // Update every second
});

stream.on('forecast', (forecast) => {
  console.log('New forecast:', forecast);
});

📈 Model Selection Guide

| Use Case | Recommended Models | Why | |----------|-------------------|-----| | Short-term (<24 steps) | NBEATS, NHITS, LSTM | Fast training, accurate | | Long-term (>100 steps) | Transformer, Informer, TFT | Captures long dependencies | | High frequency (minute/second) | TCN, MLP, LSTM | Fast inference | | Low frequency (daily/weekly) | Prophet, NBEATS, GRU | Handles seasonality well | | Multiple seasonalities | TFT, Autoformer, Prophet | Explicit seasonality modeling | | Probabilistic | DeepAR, TFT, MQRNN | Uncertainty quantification | | Interpretable | NBEATS, DLinear, Prophet | Decomposable components | | Limited data | Statistical hybrids, Prophet | Regularization built-in | | Many series | LSTM, GRU, MLP | Fast training | | Exogenous variables | TFT, Transformer | Input attention |

🧪 Testing & Validation

# Run test suite
npm test

# Run benchmarks
npm run bench

# Profile performance
npm run profile

# Memory analysis
npm run mem-profile

🛠️ Development

# Clone repository
git clone https://github.com/ruvnet/neural-trader.git
cd neural-trader/neural-trader-rust/packages/neuro-divergent

# Install dependencies
npm install

# Build from source
npm run build

# Run tests
npm test

# Run benchmarks
npm run bench

🔍 Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Q: "Cannot find module '@neural-trader/neuro-divergent'"

# Ensure proper installation
npm install @neural-trader/neuro-divergent --save

Q: "CUDA out of memory"

// Reduce batch size or enable gradient checkpointing
await forecaster.fit(data, {
  batchSize: 16,           // Smaller batch
  gradientCheckpoint: true // Save memory
});

Q: "Slow training on CPU"

// Enable multi-threading and SIMD
const forecaster = new NeuralForecaster({
  models: [model],
  numThreads: 8,      // Use all cores
  simdEnabled: true   // SIMD acceleration
});

Q: "NaN loss during training"

// Reduce learning rate and add gradient clipping
await forecaster.fit(data, {
  learningRate: 0.0001,
  gradClipNorm: 1.0
});

📚 Resources

• Documentation: https://docs.neural-trader.io/neuro-divergent
• Examples: https://github.com/ruvnet/neural-trader/tree/main/examples
• Benchmarks: https://github.com/ruvnet/neural-trader/tree/main/benchmarks
• Issues: https://github.com/ruvnet/neural-trader/issues

🤝 Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with Candle ML framework
• API inspired by NeuralForecast
• SIMD optimizations based on Rust's portable_simd

📊 Citation

If you use neuro-divergent in your research, please cite:

@software{neural_trader_neuro_divergent,
  title = {Neuro-Divergent: High-Performance Neural Forecasting},
  author = {Neural Trader Team},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://github.com/ruvnet/neural-trader}
}

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