arXiv:2607. 07500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series classification (TSC) is dominated by a two-stage paradigm: train a feature encoder -- either from scratch on the target dataset or via pretraining on large corpora -- and then fit a task-specific classifier on top.
By Jaris K\"uken, Shi Bin Hoo, Martin Mr\'az, Frank Hutter, Lennart Purucker
arXiv:2606. 09861v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Next-Token Prediction (NTP) has unified LLM pretraining, its adaptation to unbounded, continuous time series (TS) remains open.
By Yunhao Zhang, Ruiying Qi, Jiale Zheng, Jianfeng Zhang, Lujia Pan, Junchi Yan
arXiv:2608. 06993v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large-scale pretrained time-series models achieve strong results through large-scale pretraining and task-agnostic representation learning, but they rely on abundant, diverse data that industrial and scientific domains often lack.
By Gregor Molan (Comtrade 360 d.o.o., Letali\v{s}ka cesta 29b, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia), Grafika Jati (Comtrade 360 d.o.o., Letali\v{s}ka cesta 29b, Ljubljana, 1000, Slovenia), Francesco Barchi (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering), Andrea Acquaviva (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universita di Bologna, Department of Electrical, Electronic, and Information Engineering), Alja\v{z} Osterman (LE-Tehnika d.o.o., \v{S}uceva 27, Kranj, 4000, Slovenia), Martin Molan (Comtrade AI GmbH, Grafenauweg 8, Zug, 6300, Switzerland)
arXiv:2605. 11287v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: A persistent paradox in time-series forecasting is that structurally simple MLP and linear models often outperform high-capacity Transformers.
By Jevon Twitty, Vinh Pham, Nitiwith Rotchanarak, Viresh Pati, Yubin Kim, Shihao Yang, Jiecheng Lu
arXiv:2607. 20652v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language models are thought to exhibit the phenomenon of superposition, representing many more features than dimensions in their residual streams.
By Andrew Mack, Kraig Yuheng Tou, Mark Henry, Zhengxun Wu, Lauren Greenspan
The paper introduces a hybrid attention model that learns a unified time‑aware patch representation for irregular multivariate time series (IMTS) forecasting. It employs a time‑aware patch encoding to embed variable‑length intra‑patch timestamps, a time bias attention mechanism to adjust for temporal misalignment and asynchronous cross‑channel dependencies, and a hybrid causal mask on a decoder‑only Transformer to balance historical context with autoregressive forecasting. The authors also curate VersaTSA, a 30 B‑observation dataset preserving native sampling sparsity, and demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art zero‑shot performance on three IMTS benchmarks while remaining competitive on regular MTS tasks.
By Zhihao Lin, Li Lin, Qi Zhang, Kaiwen Xia, Shuai Wang, Jialin Qiao
arXiv:2601.20845v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Time series forecasting is a fundamental problem with applications in climate, energy, healthcare, and finance. Many existing approaches require do...
By Olaf Yunus Laitinen Imanov, Derya Umut Kulali, Taner Yilmaz
arXiv:2608. 03926v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series anomaly detection (TSAD) underpins applications in predictive maintenance, finance, and cloud computing, however performance remains sensitive to representation choices, especially in multivariate settings.
By Mateusz Smendowski, Kamil Faber, Piotr Nawrocki, Nathalie Japkowicz, Roberto Corizzo
arXiv:2511. 20577v5 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Real-world time series often exhibit strong non-stationarity, complex nonlinear dynamics, and behavior expressed across multiple temporal scales, from rapid local fluctuations to slow-evolving long-range trends.
By Sumit S Shevtekar, Chandresh K Maurya
arXiv:2605.01418v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Time-series data are inherently multiscale, spanning diverse temporal granularities from coarse trends to fine-scale dynamics. However, existing ti...
By Seokhyun Lee, Jaeho Kim, Changjun Oh, Mihaela van der Schaar, Changhee Lee
arXiv:2606. 09659v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Long-context language model inference is bottlenecked by memory, as the KV cache grows with context length.
By Ang Li, Sean McLeish, Haozhe Chen, Nimit Kalra, Zaiqian Chen, Artem Gazizov, Venkata Anoop Suhas Kumar Morisetty, Bhavya Kailkhura, Harshitha Menon, Zhuang Liu, Brian R. Bartoldson, Tom Goldstein, Sanae Lotfi, Micah Goldblum, Pavel Izmailov
arXiv:2608. 09421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable human activity recognition (HAR) remains challenging due to the computational and energy constraints of deep learning models on resource-limited devices.
By Dominique Nshimyimana, Vitor Fortes Rey, Mengxi Liu, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz