Question: PatchTSMixer - Support for exogenous variables

[gabriel301]

Some time ago I asked this question about some type of inputs that were available in the ForecastDFDataset class constructor:
#43

At that time, there were no models that supported those kind of inputs. Are they available now for PatchTSMixer? If so, is there any usage example?

Thanks!

[wgifford]

Hi @gabriel301

There is an example of using control_columns with the TinyTimeMixer model here: https://github.com/ibm-granite-community/granite-timeseries-cookbook/blob/main/recipes/Time_Series/Bike_Sharing_Finetuning_with_Exogenous.ipynb

conditional_columns and observed_columns would work in a similar way (expect for conditional_columns the underlying assumption is that future values are not observed).

Let me know if that example helps.