Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
time seriesfamily

Informer

Efficient transformer for long sequence time series forecasting (AAAI 2021). Paper by Zhou et al. (2020).

Figure from the Informer paper: chart of prediction error and inference speed as the predicted sequence grows.
Levelfamily
Classtime series
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released14 Dec 2020
Opennessopen source
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
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Family
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Released
14 Dec 2020 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
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Record checked
12 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
dense transformer ProbSparse self-attention for long sequences
Total parameters
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Active parameters
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Checkpoint parameters
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Context length
not in the notes
Input
time series
Output
time series
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open source
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
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Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
Footprint
Licence is that of the official zhouhaoyi/Informer2020 repository (Apache-2.0).
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
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Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
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Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2012.07436 https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07436
  2. github.com/zhouhaoyi/Informer2020 https://github.com/zhouhaoyi/Informer2020
  3. nixtlaverse.nixtla.io/neuralforecast/docs/capabilities/overview.html https://nixtlaverse.nixtla.io/neuralforecast/docs/capabilities/overview.html

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Informer", https://aurion.semai.id/models/informer/, records of October 2026.