Installation

GluonTS relies on the recent version of MXNet. The easiest way to install MXNet is through pip. The following command installs the latest version of MXNet.

pip install --upgrade mxnet~=1.7

Note

There are other pre-build MXNet packages that enable GPU supports and accelerate CPU performance, please refer to this page for details. Some training scripts are recommended to run on GPUs, if you don’t have a GPU machine at hand, you may consider running on AWS.

After installing MXNet, you can install the GluonTS toolkit by

pip install gluonts

Install from Dev Branch

If you are interested in trying out features on dev branch that hasn’t been released yet, you have the option of installing from dev branch directly.

Install from GitHub

Use the following command to automatically download and install the current code on dev branch:

pip install git+https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts.git

Install from Source Code

You can also first check out the code locally using Git:

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/gluon-ts
cd gluon-ts

then use the provided setup.py to install into site-packages:

python setup.py install

Note

You may need to use sudo in case you run into permission denied error.

Alternatively, you can set up the package with development mode, so that local changes are immediately reflected in the installed python package

python setup.py develop

Note

The dev branch may rely on MXNet nightly builds which are available on PyPI, please refer to this page for installation guide.