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  • Documentation
    • Added a forecasting guide covering single- and multi-target forecasts, covariates, ensembles, output quantiles, and batched predictions.
    • Clarified how query rows determine the forecast horizon and how covariates in context and query support future predictions, while context-only covariates describe the past.
    • Documented ensemble averaging and batching independent tasks, including shared context lengths and horizons and padding shorter histories.
    • Added the forecasting guide to the documentation table of contents.

The change adds a forecasting guide covering input shapes, horizons, covariates, multiple targets, ensembles, and batches. The Guides table of contents now links to the guide.

Changes: Forecasting guide

Layer / File(s) Summary
Forecast inputs and horizon
docs/source/forecasting.md, docs/source/index.md
The guide defines forecast inputs and horizon selection, shows a single-target example, and appears in the Guides table of contents.
Targets and covariates
docs/source/forecasting.md
The guide describes joint forecasts for supported multi-target models and distinguishes context-only covariates from known-future covariates.
Ensembling and batches
docs/source/forecasting.md
The guide documents ensemble averaging with num_estimators and batched forecasting with shared context lengths and horizons.

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Two copied documentation examples currently fail as Python code; these localized issues should be fixed before merging.

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Description check Inconclusive No pull request description was provided, so the change intent and scope are not documented beyond the title. Add a short description that summarizes the new forecasting guide and its coverage of univariate and multivariate forecasting, covariates, ensembling, and batching.
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227-227: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Qualify the omitted-estimator default.

This is true only for 2D inputs. For higher-rank inputs, num_estimators=None infers the estimator count from the leading dimension, so the batch dimension can instead be treated as ensemble members and averaged, as the note below explains. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Review comment at @docs/source/forecasting.md at line 227:
Qualify the statement about the default in the num_estimators documentation:
specify that omitting num_estimators is equivalent to num_estimators=1 only for
2D inputs. Keep the higher-rank behavior described in the surrounding
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- Line 227: Qualify the statement about the default in the num_estimators
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Minor · Remove the dead quickstart.py link. · forecasting.md:270

docs/source/forecasting.md:270
📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Remove the dead quickstart.py link.

examples/timeseries/quickstart.py is absent at the reviewed head. Readers following this link cannot reach the documented runnable example.

Suggested fix
-See [`examples/timeseries/quickstart.py`](https://github.com/NVIDIA/structured-data-models/blob/main/examples/timeseries/quickstart.py) for runnable examples on real datasets, which cover batches of series as well as known future and past-only covariates.
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Remove the dead `quickstart.py` link from the forecasting documentation
sentence; do not leave a reference to the absent example.

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135-136: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add the missing comma in the stypes mapping.

"cold_drinks": "numerical" must be followed by a comma before "temperature". Without the comma, the covariate example raises SyntaxError when copied.

Proposed fix
         "ice_cream": "numerical",
-        "cold_drinks": "numerical"
+        "cold_drinks": "numerical",
         "temperature": "numerical"
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Add the missing comma after the "cold_drinks" entry in the stypes mapping so the
example parses while keeping the "temperature" entry unchanged.

187-188: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Fix the duplicated x_context argument in the batch example.

The call passes x_context twice and omits y_context. Python rejects duplicate keyword arguments before execution. Keep one x_context argument and add y_context with the target shape.

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     x_context=torch.randn(64, 128, 0, device="cuda"),
-    x_context=torch.randn(64, 128, 2, device="cuda"),
+    y_context=torch.randn(64, 128, 2, device="cuda"),
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Review comment at @docs/source/forecasting.md around lines 187 - 188:
Update the batch example so the call has one x_context argument and uses
y_context for the target tensor with shape (64, 128, 2), preserving the existing
x_context argument.

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- Around line 187-188: Update the batch example so the call has one x_context
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