ze, sequence_length)`, *optional*): Boolean mask to indicate which `past_values` were observed and which were missing. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`: - 1 for values that are **observed**, - 0 for values that are **missing** (i.e. NaNs that were replaced by zeros). static_categorical_features (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, number of static categorical features)`, *optional*): Optional static categorical features for which the model will learn an embedding, which it will add to the values of the time series. Static categorical features are features which have the same value for all time steps (static over time). A typical example of a static categorical feature is a time series ID. static_real_features (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, number of static real features)`, *optional*): Optional static real features which the model will add to the values of the time series. Static real features are features which have the same value for all time steps (static over time). A typical example of a static real feature is promotion information. future_values (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, prediction_length)`): Future values of the time series, that serve as labels for the model. The `future_values` is what the Transformer needs to learn to output, given the `past_values`. See the demo notebook and code snippets for details. Missing values need to be replaced with zeros. future_time_features (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, prediction_length, num_features)`, *optional*): Optional time features, which the model internally will add to `future_values`. These could be things like "month of year", "day of the month", etc. encoded as vectors (for instance as Fourier features). These could also be so-called "age" features, which basically help the model know "at which point in life" a time-series is. Age features have small values for distant past time steps and increase monotonically the more we approach the current time step. These features serve as the "positional encodings" of the inputs. So contrary to a model like BERT, where the position encodings are learned from scratch internally as parameters of the model, the Time Series Transformer requires to provide additional features. The Autoformer only learns additional embeddings for `static_categorical_features`. attention_mask (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`, *optional*): Mask to avoid performing attention on certain token indices. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`: - 1 for tokens that are **not masked**, - 0 for tokens that are **masked**. [What are attention masks?](../glossary#attention-mask) decoder_attention_mask (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, target_sequence_length)`, *optional*): Mask to avoid performing attention on certain token indices. By default, a causal mask will be used, to make sure the model can only look at previous inputs in order to predict the future. head_mask (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(encoder_layers, encoder_attention_heads)`, *optional*): Mask to nullify selected heads of the attention modules in the encoder. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`: - 1 indicates the head is **not masked**, - 0 indicates the head is **masked**. decoder_head_mask (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(decoder_layers, decoder_attention_heads)`, *optional*): Mask to nullify selected heads of the attention modules in the decoder. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`: - 1 indicates the head is **not masked**, - 0 indicates the head is **masked**. cross_attn_head_mask (`torch.Tensor` of shape `(decoder_layers, decoder_attention_heads)`, *optional*): Mask to nullify selected heads of the cross-attention modules. Mask values selected in `[0, 1]`: - 1 indicates the head is **not masked**, - 0 indicates the head is **masked**. encoder_outputs (`tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor)`, *optional*): Tuple consists of `last_hidden_state`, `hidden_states` (*optional*) and `attentions` (*optional*) `last_hidden_state` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)` (*optional*) is a sequence of hidden-states at the output of the last layer of the encoder. Used in the cross-attention of the decoder. past_key_values (`tuple(tuple(torch.FloatTensor))`, *optional*, returned when `use_cache=True` is passed or when `config.use_cache=True`): Tuple of `tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` of length `config.n_layers`, with each tuple having 2 tensors of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)`) and 2 additional tensors of shape `(batch_size, num_heads, encoder_sequence_length, embed_size_per_head)`. Contains pre-computed hidden-states (key and values in the self-attention blocks and in the cross-attention blocks) that can be used (see `past_key_values` input) to speed up sequential decoding. If `past_key_values` are used, the user can optionally input only the last `decoder_input_ids` (those that don't have their past key value states given to this model) of shape `(batch_size, 1)` instead of all `decoder_input_ids` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`. inputs_embeds (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, hidden_size)`, *optional*): Optionally, instead of passing `input_ids` you can choose to directly pass an embedded representation. This is useful if you want more control over how to convert `input_ids` indices into associated vectors than the model's internal embedding lookup matrix. use_cache (`bool`, *optional*): If set to `True`, `past_key_values` key value states are returned and can be used to speed up decoding (see `past_key_values`). output_attentions (`bool`, *optional*): Whether or not to return the attentions tensors of all attention layers. See `attentions` under returned tensors for more detail. output_hidden_states (`bool`, *optional*): Whether or not to return the hidden states of all layers. See `hidden_states` under returned tensors for more detail. return_dict (`bool`, *optional*): Whether or not to return a [`~utils.ModelOutput`] instead of a plain tuple. c