Lightning Talk: Why Your Forecasting Transformer Isn’t Working (And How To Fix It... Rosheen Naeem

This talk focuses on the challenges and solutions for improving forecasting transformers in Python, particularly in the context of renewable energy. The speaker, Rosheen Naeem from Open Climate Fix, shares insights from a Google Summer of Code project that involves a Temporal Fusion Transformer for multi-horizon solar forecasting. Key topics include managing continuous training windows, aligning weather forecast steps with observations, and distinguishing between static and time-varying features. Attendees will gain practical knowledge on overcoming engineering hurdles and learn reusable patterns for developing effective time-series forecasting pipelines.