What's the difference between a bidirectional LSTM and an LSTM?

Question

Can someone please explain this? I know bidirectional LSTMs have a forward and backward pass but what is the advantage of this over a unidirectional LSTM?

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Answer 1

It can also be helpful in Time Series Forecasting problems, like predicting the electric consumption of a household. However, we can also use LSTM in this but Bidirectional LSTM will also do a better job in it.