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	Informer	iTransformer	PatchTST
Campo	Apprendimento profondo	Apprendimento profondo	Apprendimento profondo
Famiglia	Machine learning	Machine learning	Machine learning
Anno di origine	2021	2024	2023
Ideatore	Zhou, H. et al.	Yong Liu et al.	Nie, Y. et al.
Tipo	Transformer (ProbSparse self-attention)	Inverted-attention sequence model	Transformer for time series forecasting
Fonte seminale	Zhou, H. et al. (2021). Informer: Beyond Efficient Transformer for Long Sequence Time-Series Forecasting. AAAI.	Liu, Y., Hu, T., Zhang, H., Wu, H., Wang, S., Ma, L., & Long, M. (2024). iTransformer: Inverted transformers are effective for time series forecasting. ICLR.	Nie, Y., Nguyen, N. H., Sinthong, P. & Kalagnanam, J. (2023). A Time Series is Worth 64 Words: Long-term Forecasting with Transformers. ICLR.
Alias	Informer — Uzun Dizi Transformer Tahmini, Informer transformer, ProbSparse attention forecaster	Inverted Transformer, iTransformer for Time Series, Inverted Attention Transformer, Ters Transformer	PatchTST — Yama Tabanlı Zaman Serisi Transformer, patch-based time series transformer, channel-independent transformer
Correlati	5	2	3
Sintesi	Informer is a Transformer-based model introduced by Zhou et al. in 2021 for long-sequence time-series forecasting, using a ProbSparse self-attention mechanism that lowers the computational complexity of the standard Transformer to O(L log L). It is built for problems that demand predictions across thousands of future steps.	iTransformer is a deep-learning architecture for multivariate time-series forecasting introduced by Liu et al. at ICLR 2024. Its defining idea is to invert the conventional Transformer tokenisation strategy: instead of treating each time step as a token, iTransformer treats each variate (sensor channel or feature series) as a single token whose embedding encodes the full observed look-back window. Self-attention is then applied across variates to capture inter-series dependencies, while a feed-forward network within each token learns temporal patterns.	PatchTST is a patch-based Transformer architecture for time series forecasting, introduced by Nie and colleagues in 2023, that cuts each series into overlapping patches treated as tokens and processes channels independently. It balances computational efficiency with strong accuracy on long-horizon forecasting.