arXiv Machine Learning

QABBA: Symbolic Time-Series Compression via Integer-Quantized Aggregation

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 26

QABBA: Error-Guaranteed Symbolic Time-Series Compression via Integer-Quantized Aggregation

QABBA is a quantized variant of the Adaptive Brownian Bridge-based Aggregation (ABBA) method that compresses long numerical time‑series into short symbolic sequences using integer‑quantized symbolic centers. It reduces parameter storage and enables integer arithmetic while providing rigorous error bounds—including a dimension‑free segment error, a time‑domain reconstruction error, a stability condition for symbolic assignment, and a bit‑allocation rule. The resulting symbolic strings can be fed directly into pretrained large language models, and experiments on several benchmark archives show a practical trade‑off among storage, reconstruction accuracy, and downstream predictive performance.

By Erin Carson, Xinye Chen, Fei He, Cheng Kang
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 31

DAMP: Decay-Aware Mixed-Precision Recurrent-State Quantization

The paper introduces DAMP, a decay‑aware mixed‑precision quantization scheme for recurrent‑state representations in GDN and KDA language models. By identifying high‑risk channels through quantization‑error energy and decay persistence, DAMP stores these channels at higher precision while compressing the rest to INT8, achieving a 9.9‑bit average precision. Experiments on Qwen3.6‑35B and Kimi‑Linear‑48B show a 69.1% reduction in recurrent‑state storage, up to 2.01× faster state‑update kernels, and up to 10.9% lower full‑model TPOT while preserving accuracy close to the FP32 baseline.

By Tao Zhang, Jianchao Tan, Pingwei Sun, Yanqi Yu, Zixu Jiang, Yuchen Xie, Xunliang Cai, Ziqian Zeng
arXiv AI
Jun 18

From Values to Tokens: An LLM-Driven Framework for Context-aware Time Series Forecasting via Symbolic Discretization

arXiv:2508. 09191v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Time series forecasting plays a vital role in supporting decision-making across a wide range of critical applications, including energy, healthcare, and finance.

By Xiaoyu Tao, Shilong Zhang, Mingyue Cheng, Daoyu Wang, Tingyue Pan, Bokai Pan, Changqing Zhang, Shijin Wang