How to give TemporalFusionTransformer model a name?

Question

Im working on creating .py scripts that preprocess some data and then train a TemporalFusionTransformer model. After the training, I have a function that logs the evaluation metrics in a .txt file, whose name should be model_name@datetime.txt. Everywhere that I have looked, searched, in the docs, on forums, articles, I cannot find a way to give my models a custom name? Any idea how to do this?

Edit: Can someone with >1500 reputation please add the tag temporalfusiontransformer in he tags section. Users below 1500 reputation (like me) cannot add new tags to the site.

Answer 1

You could create a custom class inheriting the original that requires and stores a name property on top of what other functionality the model provides, e.g.

class NamedTFT(TemporalFusionTransformer):
    def __init__(self, name: str, *args, **kwargs):
        super(NamedTFT, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.name = name

then you could grab the model's name afterwards.