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  • New Features
    • Added Timestral, a pretrained forecasting model with 5M–209M parameter options, numerical and categorical covariate support, and forecasts across 21 quantiles.
    • Added an example forecasting sales with future event labels, and benchmarks comparing forecast results and runtime with the upstream model.
    • Added an option to append previously unseen categories during categorical alignment.
    • Added support for explicit position IDs in rotary embeddings.
  • Documentation
    • Added model and benchmark guidance, plus third-party notices covering separate code and weights licenses.
  • Tests
    • Added coverage for Timestral forecasting, categorical alignment, quantile outputs, rotary embeddings, and parity with the upstream model.

This change adds Timestral, a multivariate forecasting model with four checkpoint sizes, numerical and categorical covariate support, and quantile forecasts. It also adds neural-network components, parity tests and benchmarks, a usage example, API documentation, and license notices. Separately, it extends categorical alignment to append unseen categories and align ensemble members using their fitted vocabularies.

Changes: Timestral forecasting

Layer / File(s) Summary
Configuration and numerical primitives
sdm/models/timestral/config.py, sdm/models/timestral/scaler.py, sdm/nn/*, test/nn/*
Adds Timestral configuration, masked scaling, causal patch normalization, a residual MLP, and monotone quantile projection. Tests cover the neural-network components.
Transformer and prediction network
sdm/models/timestral/layers.py, sdm/models/timestral/masks.py, sdm/models/timestral/network.py, sdm/nn/rope.py, test/nn/test_rope.py, test/nn/test_compile.py
Adds transformer attention and masking, patch representations, context-only and two-stream prediction paths, and explicit rotary position IDs. Tests cover rotary positions and compilation.
Timestral API and forecast assembly
sdm/models/timestral/model.py, sdm/models/timestral/encoding.py, sdm/models/timestral/decode.py, sdm/models/timestral/__init__.py, sdm/models/__init__.py, test/models/timestral/*
Adds the Timestral API, checkpoint loading and remapping, categorical and covariate preparation, autoregressive decoding, and forecast tests.
Parity, usage, and license materials
benchmark/forecasting/timestral_*, examples/timeseries/timestral_categorical.py, docs/source/api/models.rst, benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.md, THIRD_PARTY_LICENSES.md, pyproject.toml, sdm/models/timestral/LICENSE, sdm/models/timestral/WEIGHTS_LICENSE
Adds parity and runtime benchmarks with recorded CPU and CUDA results, a categorical forecasting example, API and benchmark documentation, and source and license notices.

Categorical alignment

Layer / File(s) Summary
Append unseen categories during alignment
sdm/processing/categorical/align.py, test/processing/categorical/test_align.py, test/processing/test_contract.py
Adds unknown="append" for AlignCategories when min_frequency=0. Transformations append unseen dictionary categories after fitted categories. Ensemble transformations use each member’s fitted vocabulary. Tests cover missing values, code dtype, repeated transforms, empty vocabularies, numeric categories, and ensemble behavior.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant Timestral
  participant Decoder as _Decoder
  participant Network as Timestral network
  Caller->>Timestral: request forecast
  Timestral->>Decoder: prepare targets and covariates
  Decoder->>Network: decode forecast blocks
  Network-->>Decoder: return quantile predictions
  Decoder-->>Timestral: return forecast
  Timestral-->>Caller: return forecast
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Numerical-only or categorical-only forecasts can fail, and previously saved category processors may no longer load safely. Resolve those compatibility and forecasting failures before merging.

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benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.py: 1

124-124: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Replace the assert with an explicit error.

The revision check uses assert. It is stripped under python -O. It also gives no message when the upstream package was not installed from a VCS URL (direct_url.json missing). Raise a RuntimeError with the expected and found commit.

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-    assert installed.get("vcs_info", {}).get("commit_id") == SOURCE_REVISION
+    commit = installed.get("vcs_info", {}).get("commit_id")
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+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"Expected timestral at {SOURCE_REVISION}, found {commit}."
+        )
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Review comment at @benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.py at line 124:
Replace the assert in the revision check with an explicit condition that
compares the installed commit ID to SOURCE_REVISION and raises RuntimeError on
mismatch, including both the expected and found commit so missing VCS metadata
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46-50: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Fix the docstring claim about missing categories. The multi-target path does not follow it.

The docstring says missing categories form their own category. With multiple targets, Line 302 maps codes < 0 to NaN. _Decoder._assemble_rows then marks those positions as unobserved. They are not a separate category. With one target, _encode_categories also writes NaN into context positions that have a missing code and no valid target.

Say what actually happens in each case, or encode missing values the same way on both paths.

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Review comment at @sdm/models/timestral/model.py around lines 46 - 50:
The docstring near `_encode_categories` incorrectly says missing categories form
their own category. Update it to describe the actual behavior: with multiple
targets, missing category codes become `NaN` and are treated as unobserved by
`_Decoder._assemble_rows`; with one target, context positions without a valid
target are also encoded as `NaN`. Alternatively, change both encoding paths to
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that behavior.
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benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.py: 1

21-22: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use one source for revision constants.

SOURCE_REVISION and WEIGHT_REVISION duplicate values in sdm/models/timestral/model.py (_REVISIONS) and the test file. A drift between them breaks parity silently. Import the 5M revision from the model module.

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Update the revision constants in the parity test to use the 5M revision from
`sdm.models.timestral.model`’s `_REVISIONS` instead of duplicating values. Keep
the test’s existing revision usage aligned with that imported source.
test/models/timestral/test_model.py: 1

127-146: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Pin the upstream source revision used by the parity test.

The test already skips when timestral cannot be imported or the pinned checkpoint is unavailable. Remove that part of the request.

The test duplicates the 5M WEIGHT_REVISION from _REVISIONS and the benchmark. More importantly, it does not check the installed timestral source revision before calling upstream.TimestralForecaster.from_pretrained(...). A different installed revision may produce different reference forecasts with the same weights. Reuse the benchmark's SOURCE_REVISION check and centralize the shared revision constants where practical.

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Review comment at @test/models/timestral/test_model.py around lines 127 - 146:
Before calling upstream.TimestralForecaster.from_pretrained, verify the
installed timestral source revision matches the benchmark’s SOURCE_REVISION
check and skip or fail consistently on mismatch. Reuse shared revision
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Review comments at @sdm/models/timestral/model.py:
- Around line 282-287: Update the reshapes in the visible numeric-and-code
processing block to use each tensor’s explicit column count instead of inferring
it with -1. Check for zero categorical columns before reshaping codes, so the
known-covariate path returns numeric features without trying to reshape
context-length codes to length; preserve the existing behavior for nonempty
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Review comments at @benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.py:
- Line 124: Replace the assert in the revision check with an explicit condition
that compares the installed commit ID to SOURCE_REVISION and raises RuntimeError
on mismatch, including both the expected and found commit so missing VCS
metadata is reported clearly.

Review comments at @sdm/models/timestral/model.py:
- Around line 46-50: The docstring near `_encode_categories` incorrectly says
missing categories form their own category. Update it to describe the actual
behavior: with multiple targets, missing category codes become `NaN` and are
treated as unobserved by `_Decoder._assemble_rows`; with one target, context
positions without a valid target are also encoded as `NaN`. Alternatively,
change both encoding paths to represent missing categories consistently, and
keep the docstring aligned with that behavior.

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Review comments at @benchmark/forecasting/timestral_parity.py:
- Around line 21-22: Update the revision constants in the parity test to use the
5M revision from `sdm.models.timestral.model`’s `_REVISIONS` instead of
duplicating values. Keep the test’s existing revision usage aligned with that
imported source.

Review comments at @test/models/timestral/test_model.py:
- Around line 127-146: Before calling
upstream.TimestralForecaster.from_pretrained, verify the installed timestral
source revision matches the benchmark’s SOURCE_REVISION check and skip or fail
consistently on mismatch. Reuse shared revision constants, including
WEIGHT_REVISION, where practical rather than duplicating them; preserve the
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289-289: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Name arguments in the new multi-line tensor calls.

Use end= for torch.arange and tensors= for both torch.cat calls. As per path instructions, use “keyword arguments in multi-line calls.”

Also applies to: 295-295, 315-315

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Review comment at @sdm/models/timestral/model.py at line 289:
Update the multi-line torch.arange call in the channels construction to use the
end keyword, and both multi-line torch.cat calls to use the tensors keyword.
Keep their existing values and behavior unchanged.

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75-77: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Use a keyword argument for the rotary input.

Pass the stacked tensor as x= in this multi-line call. As per path instructions, use “keyword arguments in multi-line calls.”

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88-92: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Name the torch.arange endpoint.

Use end=x.size(-3) in this multi-line call. As per path instructions, use “keyword arguments in multi-line calls.”

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self._categories: BufferList[BufferList[Tensor]] = BufferList()
self._table_ids: tuple[int, ...] = ()

def get_extra_state(self) -> tuple[int, ...]:

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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Preserve loading of previously fitted processors.

A saved AlignCategories state from before this change has no root _extra_state key. The new get_extra_state makes strict load_state_dict reject that state. Loading with strict=False leaves _table_ids empty, so transform_ensemble then fails at Line 364. Provide a legacy-state migration or an explicit re-fit path; do not leave non-strict loading apparently successful. PyTorch 2.7 confirms the missing-key behavior. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Preserve loading of pre-change AlignCategories checkpoints that lack the root
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