Generating the right target for an LSTM model

Trying to explain my question on a simplified data set.
Having the following dataset:

   day   f1    f2
0    0   10  1000
1    1   45  2000
2    2  120  3400
3    3   90  5000


I'm trying two approaches to generates a score based on the data observations:

Approach 1: I've scaled the features so the max value is 1.0 by dividing each feature by it's max value to get:

   day        f1    f2
0    0  0.083333  0.20
1    1  0.375000  0.40
2    2  1.000000  0.68
3    3  0.750000  1.00


I created a score where score = 𝑓(f1,f2) so now the data looks like so:

   day        f1    f2     score
0    0  0.083333  0.20  0.141667
1    1  0.375000  0.40  0.387500
2    2  1.000000  0.68  0.840000
3    3  0.750000  1.00  0.875000


Approach 2: I did a similar score calculation, however, the normalization of the features were done with CDF like so:

from scipy import stats
df['f1'] = df.f1.apply(stats.norm.cdf, args=(df.f1.mean(),df.f1.std()))
df['f2'] = df.f2.apply(stats.norm.cdf, args=(df.f2.mean(),df.f2.std()))

day        f1        f2
0    0  0.123267  0.143672
1    1  0.330776  0.312474
2    2  0.865919  0.624118
3    3  0.687676  0.891864


And the final score:

   day        f1        f2     score
0    0  0.123267  0.143672  0.133469
1    1  0.330776  0.312474  0.321625
2    2  0.865919  0.624118  0.745019
3    3  0.687676  0.891864  0.789770


Looking at the larger picture.
My actual data set is composed of 1280 sequences of 30 days each with 10 features (shape is (1280,30,10)) and I'm trying to predict day 30 score based on the first week of data.

Looking at the histogram for day 30 score of my first approach it looks like so:

while my other approach ac produce the following:

Question: When building an LSTM regression model, what scoring method would better reflect the overall score? Is that a product question, or is there a better statistical method to calculate the score?

• "I'm trying to predict day 30 score based on the first week of data." So you have data for day 1-7 and using that you want to predict day 30? What happens with the data for day 8 to 29? Jun 19 '20 at 14:56
• I am very confused about how your question relates to the different approaches you described? Also, what is your score and how do you calculate it? Is it the output of your LSTM? Jun 19 '20 at 15:36
• Day 8-29 are not relevant to my use-case, on day 8 my prediction is redundant. The score is just a function that takes the features and calculate a target it can change depending on the use-case. Jun 21 '20 at 9:54
• I think what you're looking for is sigmoid since You can set its scale between 0 and 1 and your outputs will be scattered in this scale. Mar 22 at 5:33

$$H(p,q) = - \sum_{i}p_i logq_i$$ The true label for a datapoint would be modeled as $$p_i$$ and the predicted value of the current model would be modeled as $$q_i$$.