npm package: @neural-trader/neuro-divergent
Description: Neural forecasting library with 27+ models (NHITS, LSTM, Transformers) for time series prediction
Author: Neural Trader Team
Latest version: 2.1.1

# @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.

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## 🚀 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

```bash
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

```javascript
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.

```javascript
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.

```javascript
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.

```javascript
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.

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

### Model: LSTM

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

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

### GPU Acceleration

```javascript
// 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

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

### Memory Optimization

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

### Checkpointing

```javascript
// 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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
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

```javascript
// 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

```bash
# Run test suite
npm test

# Run benchmarks
npm run bench

# Profile performance
npm run profile

# Memory analysis
npm run mem-profile
```

## 🛠️ Development

```bash
# 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'"**
```bash
# Ensure proper installation
npm install @neural-trader/neuro-divergent --save
```

**Q: "CUDA out of memory"**
```javascript
// Reduce batch size or enable gradient checkpointing
await forecaster.fit(data, {
  batchSize: 16,           // Smaller batch
  gradientCheckpoint: true // Save memory
});
```

**Q: "Slow training on CPU"**
```javascript
// 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"**
```javascript
// 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](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## 📄 License

MIT License - see [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.

## 🙏 Acknowledgments

- Built with [Candle](https://github.com/huggingface/candle) ML framework
- API inspired by [NeuralForecast](https://github.com/Nixtla/neuralforecast)
- SIMD optimizations based on Rust's `portable_simd`

## 📊 Citation

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

```bibtex
@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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