The paper introduces ICI-Time, a framework that casts time series forecasting as a visual inpainting problem. By converting series into area‑chart images, it enables pre‑trained vision transformers to perform forecasting through in‑context learning without fine‑tuning or new temporal architectures. Experiments on epidemiology, meteorology, and power systems show competitive performance and strong adaptability in low‑data scenarios.
By Thang Nguyen, Dung Nguyen, Romero Morais, Truyen Tran
arXiv:2510. 03244v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large time series foundation models often adopt channel-independent architectures to handle varying data dimensions, but this design ignores crucial cross-channel dependencies.
By Yanlong Wang, Hang Yu, Jian Xu, Fei Ma, Hongkang Zhang, Tongtong Feng, Zijian Zhang, Shao-Lun Huang, Danny Dongning Sun, Xiao-Ping Zhang
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:2606. 13119v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatio-Temporal forecasting is crucial in diverse fields, such as transportation, climate, and energy.
By Lilan Peng, Yandi Liu, Qingren Yao, Chongshou Li, Tianrui Li
arXiv:2606. 13119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatio-Temporal forecasting is crucial in diverse fields, such as transportation, climate, and energy.
By Lilan Peng, Yandi Liu, Qingren Yao, Chongshou Li, Tianrui Li
arXiv:2603. 12451v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Context-aided forecasting (CAF) holds promise for integrating domain knowledge and forward-looking information, enabling AI systems to surpass traditional statistical methods.
By Vincent Zhihao Zheng, \'Etienne Marcotte, Arjun Ashok, Andrew Robert Williams, Lijun Sun, Alexandre Drouin, Valentina Zantedeschi
arXiv:2608.29640v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise for spatio-temporal forecasting, but existing approaches often rely on regularly sampled token sequen...
By Di Zhang, Jingyang Zhang, Ziqian Wang, Chi Zhang, Yikun Ban, Ziwei Zhang, Ruijie Wang
arXiv:2602. 17149v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent time series modeling faces a sharp divide between numerical generation and semantic understanding, with research showing that generation models often rely on superficial pattern matching, while understanding-oriented models struggle with high-fidelity numerical output.
By Tong Guan, Sheng Pan, Johan Barthelemy, Zhao Li, Yujun Cai, Cesare Alippi, Ming Jin, Shirui Pan
SAGE is an end‑to‑end CLIP‑based framework that augments vision‑language time‑series forecasting by jointly modeling temporal, cross‑variable, textual, and visual information. It processes frequency‑enhanced patches and variable tokens through a CLIP text encoder, while gated residual paths inject variable‑specific descriptions and statistical descriptors. A frozen CLIP vision encoder aligns rendered series with temporal representations via a training‑only contrastive objective, enabling multimodal alignment and variable‑level knowledge without using an LLM during inference.
SAGE is a CLIP-based framework that augments vision‑language time series forecasting by incorporating variable‑specific semantic and statistical information. It processes frequency‑enhanced patches and variable tokens through a CLIP text encoder, while a frozen CLIP vision encoder aligns rendered series with temporal representations via a contrastive objective. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art accuracy on eight long‑term benchmarks and M4, with ablations showing complementary gains from multimodal alignment and variable‑level knowledge.
By Haizhao Fan, Xinyi Le
arXiv:2408. 11336v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Climate change stands as one of the most pressing global challenges of the twenty-first century, with far-reaching consequences such as rising sea levels, melting glaciers, and increasingly extreme weather patterns.
By Tajamul Ashraf, Janibul Bashir
arXiv:2603. 05997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Irregularly sampled time series (ISTS) are widespread in real-world scenarios, exhibiting asynchronous observations on uneven time intervals across diverse variables.
By Zhi Lei, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Wanghui Qiu, Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo