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
Multivariate time-series forecasting is essential to many real-world applications. Recent large vision models (LVMs) offer a promising paradigm by transferring cross-domain visual priors to time-serie...
arXiv:2609.24441v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multivariate time-series forecasting is essential to many real-world applications. Recent large vision models (LVMs) offer a promising paradigm by tran...
By Xinying Cai, Junkai Lu, Yuhan Zhu, Xiaoyun Yu, Xiangfei Qiu, Jilin Hu
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
WinoTS introduces a wavelet‑based self‑distillation framework for time‑series models that uses time‑frequency augmentations to create multi‑scale structural views, avoiding distortion of signal dynamics. The method outperforms state‑of‑the‑art baselines in long‑term forecasting, cross‑domain zero‑shot transfer, and unsupervised anomaly detection, and linear probing on frozen representations often beats fully supervised training from scratch. Ablation studies show WinoTS is architecture‑agnostic and demonstrates that time‑frequency transformations offer a principled alternative to vision‑style spatial augmentations.
By Noam Major, Kathy Razmadze, Yoli Shavit
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:2506.08641v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Adapting vision models for time series analysis is compelling, yet all existing approaches are falling short of dedicated time series foundation mo...
By Simon Roschmann, Quentin Bouniot, Vasilii Feofanov, Ievgen Redko, Zeynep Akata
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