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Foundational Time Series Model Multi Series Cross Validation

Perform Cross Validation for multiple series

post/v2/cross_validation

Request body

freqstring required

The frequency of the data represented as a string. 'D' for daily, 'M' for monthly, 'H' for hourly, and 'W' for weekly frequencies are available.

n_windowsinteger

Number of windows to evaluate.

hinteger required

The forecasting horizon. This represents the number of time steps into the future that the forecast should predict.

full_historyboolean

Forecast across the entire series history (the add_history use case). The horizon and number of windows are derived server-side (any supplied h / n_windows are ignored), and the exogenous model is refit a bounded number of times to keep whole-history requests fast. Has no effect without exogenous features.

modelstring

Model to use as a string. Common options are (but not restricted to) timegpt-1 and timegpt-1-long-horizon. Full options vary by different users. Contact support@nixtla.io for more information. We recommend using timegpt-1-long-horizon for forecasting if you want to predict more than one seasonal period given the frequency of your data.

clean_ex_firstboolean

A boolean flag that indicates whether the API should preprocess (clean) the exogenous signal before applying the large time model. If True, the exogenous signal is cleaned; if False, the exogenous variables are applied after the large time model.

finetune_stepsinteger

The number of tuning steps used to train the large time model on the data. Set this value to 0 for zero-shot inference, i.e., to make predictions without any further model tuning.

finetune_loss'default' | 'mae' | 'mse' | 'rmse' | 'mape' | 'smape' | 'poisson'

The loss used to train the large time model on the data. Select from ['default', 'mae', 'mse', 'rmse', 'mape', 'smape', 'poisson']. It will only be used if finetune_steps larger than 0. Default is a robust loss function that is less sensitive to outliers.

finetune_depth1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

The depth of the finetuning. Uses a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 means little finetuning, and 5 means that the entire model is finetuned. Note that this parameter is only effective for timegpt-1 and timegpt-1-long-horizon models, meanwhile it has no effect on the other models. By default, the value is set to 1.

finetuned_model_idstring nullable

ID of previously finetuned model

step_sizeinteger nullable

Step size between each cross validation window. If None it will be equal to the forecasting horizon.

hist_exoginteger[] nullable

Zero-based indices of the exogenous features to treat as historical.

refitboolean

Fine-tune the model in each window. If False, only fine-tunes on the first window. Only used if finetune_steps > 0.

multivariateboolean

Compute multivariate predictions across a batch of multiple time series. Requires all time series with overlapping dates. Note that this is only effective for timegpt-2.1 model and it has no effect on the other models. By default, the value is set to False.

model_parametersobject nullable

Optional dictionary of parameters to customize the behavior of the large time model.

feature_contributionsboolean

Compute the exogenous features contributions to the forecast.

Response

Successful Response

input_tokensinteger required
output_tokensinteger required
finetune_tokensinteger required
meannumber[] required
sizesinteger[] required
idxsinteger[] required
intervalsobject nullable