Transformers Are What You Do Not Need

Valeriy Manokhin, PhD, MBA, CQF
7 min readMay 29, 2023

In my previous article, “Deep Learning Is What You Do Not Need”, I explained that deep learning for time series is not the solution that most companies need even to consider; in this article, we delve deeper into more good reasons why transformers are not the solution that is effective for time series.

Transformers Are What You Do Not Need

The article was published in June 2022 and was a rather prescient call. Since then, many…

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Valeriy Manokhin, PhD, MBA, CQF

Principal Data Scientist, PhD in Machine Learning, creator of Awesome Conformal Prediction 👍Tip: hold down the Clap icon for up x50