Abdul Fatir Ansari

Mar 21, 2024 | amazon.science | Sean O'Neill |Abdul Fatir Ansari |Lorenzo Stella

It’s fair for Thomas Hoe to describe his career path as “super nonlinear”. After all, his career trajectory has veered from prize-winning video gamer (before that was really a thing), to computer science student, to chef in Michelin-starred restaurants, to economics PhD, to leader of UK-government economics teams, to healthcare researcher at Cornell University before, finally, he launched Amazon Stores’ first European economic-science team.

Mar 18, 2024 | amazon.science | Abdul Fatir Ansari |Lorenzo Stella |Tamer H.M. Soliman

Time series forecasting is essential for decision making across industries such as retail, energy, finance, and health care. However, developing accurate machine-learning-based forecasting models has traditionally required substantial dataset-specific tuning and model customization. In a paper we have just posted to arXiv, we present Chronos, a family of pretrained time series models based on language model architectures.