Does the trainnet function work for time regression tasks?

Hello Dear Community,

since matlab has different ways to train a neural network (train, trainnetwork, trainnet...)

I would like to know, if trainnet is good for time series data regression, since most examples are for image related classification problems.

Thank you in advance.

Best wishes

Answer 1

[Ayush Aniket]

Hi Tobias,

You can use trainnet function to train deep learning models for time series data regression problems. For such problems, the input is in the format of sequences. To read about the input formats for sequence datsets in trainnet function, refer the following link:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ref/trainnet.html#mw_8b6c966a-f840-4426-9693-279222b8372f

Refer to the following documentation link which shows an example for 'Sequence-to-Sequence Regression' tasks:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/deeplearning/ug/sequence-to-sequence-regression-using-deep-learning.html

You might have to use a regressionLayer as the last layer in the network for your purpose.

Also, note that trainNetwork function is not recommended anymore.