arXiv AI

QUAL: Quantile Alignment Improves Zero-Shot Time-Series Foundation Models

The paper introduces QUAL, a label‑free framework that improves zero‑shot time‑series foundation models by aligning their quantile forecasts using a pool of models as a probability reference. QUAL first aligns member forecasts, then aggregates them with Huber aggregation and rearrangement to produce a robust combined forecast without any training or model modification. Experiments on GIFT‑Eval show that this quantile alignment reduces average member MASE by 7.4% and CRPS by 9.8%, and the method remains robust even when weak forecasters are included in the candidate pool.

arXiv AI
Oct 9

ROAR: Retrieval Opportunity-Aware Refinement for Zero-Shot Time Series Forecasting

ROAR is a Retrieval Opportunity-Aware Refinement framework designed for zero-shot time series forecasting. It enhances predictions by weighting queries according to base-forecast difficulty and the improvement potential of retrieved historical candidates, then learning a gate to control correction strength. The method jointly calibrates the forecasting module and gate, anchoring the final prediction to an initial refined output, and achieves the lowest average MSE across seven benchmarks compared to other methods.

By Jinjin Chi, Lei Feng, Yiming Wang, Lulu Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Chenyi Li, Ximing Li
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

Tabby: An Open Pretraining Recipe for Time Series Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.13956v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this report, we release Tabby, a long context probabilistic time series foundation model, together with a complete and open recipe of how it was bui...

By Shifeng Xie, Bahaeddine Abdessalem, Zehao Xiao, Youssef Attia El Hili, Ambroise Odonnat, Zhiwei Dong, Lei Zan, Themis Palpanas, Jianfeng Zhang, Lujia Pan, Keli Zhang, Malik Tiomoko
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 7

Align-RAG: Alignment Is All You Need for TSFM In-Context Learning

arXiv:2608. 05571v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Retrieval-augmented forecasting promises to adapt frozen Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) to new domains without fine-tuning, but recent methods typically rely on learned fusion modules, i.

By Mohammad Asadi, Soheil Hor, Bardiya Akhbari, Jack W. O'Sullivan, Tahoura Nedaee, Layne C. Price, Raviteja Anantha, Euan Ashley, Ehsan Adeli
arXiv AI
Sep 18

QUALS: Corpus Equilibrium for Universal Forecasting via Pattern Quantization and Learnability Synchronization

QUALS is a large‑scale time‑series corpus equilibrium framework designed to improve data efficiency for zero‑shot forecasting. It uses pattern quantization to decode heterogeneous patterns from mixed corpora and a learnability synchronization mechanism to calibrate sampling weights, bridging the optimization gap between simple and complex motifs. Benchmarks show that pre‑training on QUALS yields superior zero‑shot performance even with reduced training budgets.

By Yujie Li, Zezhi Shao, Chengqing Yu, Yisong Fu, Weijie Zhu, Yifan Du, Jilin Hu, Bin Yang, Yongjun Xu, Fei Wang
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