Neural network based prediction of events associated with users

Abstract

A system trains a neural network for predicting time for communicating with users. The system trains the neural network using user data for users that includes a communication time series and an event time series. The system trains the neural network by masking a portion of the time series data and provides the masked time series data as input to the neural network. The system executes the neural network to predict values of the masked portion of the time series data. The system determines a loss value based on the accuracy of the prediction of the masked portion of the time series data and adjusts parameters of the neural network to minimize the loss value. The system uses the trained neural network to predict timing for communicating with a particular user.