What is: Temporal Dropout or TempD?

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A method that randomly mask out all features coming from a specific time-step in time-series data. If the model used is independent of uneven sequences or missing data in time-series, like attention-based transformers, the masked time-steps can be just ignored in the forward prediction of the model. Otherwise, they have to be masked out with some numerical value.