During the COVID-19 crisis period, when GDP growth became unusually volatile, the advantages of deep learning became even ...

The model was then asked to supply a short-term forecast (one step, five minutes ahead), a medium-term forecast (30 steps, 2.5 hours ahead), and a long-term forecast (96 steps, eight hours ahead).

Deep learning is able to find similar SKUs and use that information to bootstrap the forecasting. For instance, SKUs might be associated with a top-level category as “clothing”, or lower-level ...