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Table 3 Training times in hours, measured on a machine with a Nvidia 3090 RTX GPU

From: Transformer training strategies for forecasting multiple load time series

Model

Electricity

Ausgrid

24h

96h

720h

24h

96h

720h

Linear regression (local)

0.02

0.03

0.08

0.02

0.03

0.07

MLP (local)

0.42

0.42

0.36

0.40

0.39

0.39

LSTM (multivariate)

0.06

0.08

0.30

0.03

0.04

0.10

LSTM (local)

8.25

7.61

7.20

4.27

3.55

3.49

LSTM (global)

1.09

0.82

0.98

1.11

0.84

0.71

Transformer (multivariate)

0.19

0.23

0.88

0.10

0.09

0.39

Transformer (local)

14.20

16.82

102.09

8.33

9.74

62.53

Transformer (global)

3.42

2.00

9.86

3.85

2.85

6.77