arXiv Machine Learning

It's TIME: Towards the Next Generation of Time Series Forecasting Benchmarks

arXiv:2602. 12147v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) are revolutionizing the forecasting landscape from specific dataset modeling to generalizable task evaluation.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 3

Zeus: Towards Tuning-Free Foundation Model for Time Series Analysis

arXiv:2607. 01918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Zeus, a unified tuning-free Time Series Foundation Model (TSFM) that delivers superior performance across diverse analysis tasks without any task-specific fine-tuning.

By Yisong Fu, Zezhi Shao, Chengqing Yu, Yujie Li, Yongjun Xu, Xueqi Cheng, Fei Wang

llms nlp fine-tuning

arXiv AI

Jun 10

UPLOTS: A Unified Pretrained Language Model for Constrained Time-series Generation

arXiv:2606. 10466v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In time-series generation, existing approaches typically handcraft ortrain a separate model for each dataset, which hinders their scalability and fails to leverage shared temporal structures across domains.

By Du Yin, Hao Xue, Jinliang Deng, Yang Yang, Shuang Ao, Arian Prabowo, Flora Salim

llms benchmarks

arXiv AI

Jun 9

InA-Probe: Instruction-Aware Active Probing for Time Series Forecasting with LLMs

arXiv:2606. 08601v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive potential for time series forecasting.

By Peiliang Gong, Emadeldeen Eldele, Chenyu Liu, Ziyu Jia, Yi Ding, Xinliang Zhou, Lianchao Gu, Qi Zhu, Yang Liu, Daoqiang Zhang, Xiaoli Li

llms benchmarks safety

arXiv AI

Jun 16

TimeVista: Exploring and Exploiting Vision-Language Models as Judges for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2606. 16173v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: High-quality time series forecasting is pivotal for real-world decision-making.

By Zhi Chen, Yuxuan Wang, Jialong Wu, Yong Liu, Haoran Zhang, Xingjian Su, Jianmin Wang, Mingsheng Long

llms multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

1d ago

Adapting LLMs to Time Series Forecasting via Temporal Heterogeneity Modeling and Representation Alignment

arXiv:2508. 07195v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances have demonstrated that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be effectively adapted for time series forecasting, revealing strong potential beyond natural language tasks.

By Yanru Sun, Emadeldeen Eldele, Zongxia Xie, Yucheng Wang, Wenzhe Niu, Qinghua Hu, Chee Keong Kwoh, Min Wu

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

TimeSage-MT: A Multi-Turn Benchmark for Evaluating Agentic Time Series Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 01498v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series data inform critical decisions across many real-world domains.

By Yaxuan Kong, Qingren Yao, Yuqi Nie, Yichen Li, Yilei Shao, Stefan Zohren, Anna Vettoruzzo, Joaquin Vanschoren, Ming Jin, Qingsong Wen

llms agents benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 3

TimeRFT: Stimulating Generalizable Time Series Forecasting for TSFMs via Reinforcement Finetuning

arXiv:2605. 00015v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) have demonstrated strong generalization capability and data efficiency in time series forecasting through large-scale pretraining.

By Siyang Li, Yize Chen, Zijie Zhu, Yuxin Pan, Yan Guo, Ming Huang, Hui Xiong

reinforcement-learning fine-tuning benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

fev-bench: A Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2509. 26468v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Benchmark quality is critical for meaningful evaluation and sustained progress in time series forecasting, particularly with the rise of pretrained models.

By Oleksandr Shchur, Abdul Fatir Ansari, Caner Turkmen, Lorenzo Stella, Nick Erickson, Pablo Guerron, Michael Bohlke-Schneider, Yuyang Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Time Series Forecasting as Reasoning: A Slow-Thinking Approach with Reinforced LLMs

arXiv:2506. 10630v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: To advance time series forecasting (TSF), various methods have been proposed to improve prediction accuracy, evolving from statistical techniques to data-driven deep learning architectures.

By Yitong Zhou, Yucong Luo, Mingyue Cheng, Qi Liu, Jiahao Wang, Daoyu Wang, Enhong Chen

llms reinforcement-learning fine-tuning safety

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

Foundation Models and Fine-Tuning: Toward a New Generation of Models for Time Series Forecasting

arXiv:2607. 23146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Inspired by recent breakthroughs in large language models for natural language processing, foundation models have emerged as a promising paradigm for zero-shot time series forecasting, enabling accurate predictions on datasets never seen during pre-training.

By Morad Laglil, Bertrand Pracca, Emilie Devijver, Eric Gaussier

llms nlp fine-tuning

arXiv AI

Aug 10

Seeking SOTA: Time-Series Forecasting Must Adopt Taxonomy-Specific Evaluation to Dispel Illusory Gains

arXiv:2603. 15506v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We argue that the current practice of evaluating AI/ML time-series forecasting models, predominantly on benchmarks characterized by strong, persistent periodicities and seasonalities, obscures real progress by overlooking the performance of efficient classical methods.

By Raeid Saqur, Christoph Bergmeir, Blanka Horvath, Daniel Schmidt, Frank Rudzicz, Terry Lyons

benchmarks

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 9

Rethinking Multimodal Time-Series Forecasting Evaluation

arXiv:2607. 06973v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a new context-enriched, multimodal time series forecasting benchmark, TimesX.

By Haoxin Liu, Yichen Zhou, Rajat Sen, B. Aditya Prakash, Abhimanyu Das

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