tsfeatures VS not-autotools

GluonTS Differences: -GluonTS is written in mxnet, which reduces its adoption. In contrast, NeuralForecast is written in PyTorch. -Including new models in GluonTS tends to be challenging because mxnet 's and the library structure's learning curve are steep. PyTorch-Forecasting Differences: -NeuralForecast hosts some models from our research, including N-HiTS and Transformer-based (Autoformer, Informer, Transformer, etc.) methods specialized in long-horizon forecasting (https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.12886). -And the exogenous variables extension of N-BEATS, the NBEATSx (https://arxiv.org/abs/2104.05522). Extra Features: -NeuralForecast has a wide range of curated datasets used in research to develop and test new models, such as Tourism, M3, M4, M5, EPF, ILI, Traffic, Weather, etc. -NeuralForecast models include reasonable hyperparameter spaces to speed up hyperparameter search, based on our experience. -We include an experiment module that makes it easy to put the entire time series forecasting pipeline into production. -Finally, NeuralForecast is part of a larger ecosystem of time-series analysis and forecasting that includes feature creation (tsfeatures, https://github.com/Nixtla/tsfeatures), machine learning models (mlforecast, https://github.com/Nixtla/mlforecast) and statistical models (statsforecast, https://github.com/Nixtla/statsforecast).

Thanks for your comments.

We agree that in most cases prophet is not a good benchmark; however, we wanted to use it because it is one of the most used libraries in forecasting. For that reason, we also tested the solution against AWS Forecast obtaining better results.

Besides the better performance and scalability, the pipeline we created considering all the stages of time series forecasting: preprocessing (e.g. missing value imputation), creation of static and dynamic features, forecast generation, and finally evaluation using data sets of important competencies. (https://github.com/Nixtla/tsfeatures)

On the deployment side, the entire pipeline can be quickly deployed in the user's cloud using terraform. This allows for less development time. (https://github.com/Nixtla/nixtla)