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.
We propose ICI-Time, a novel framework that reframes time series forecasting as a visual inpainting task, leveraging the generalisation power of large vision models (LVMs). Unlike methods that require...
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...
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.
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.
arXiv:2606. 13119v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Spatio-Temporal forecasting is crucial in diverse fields, such as transportation, climate, and energy.
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.
arXiv:2606. 13119v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatio-Temporal forecasting is crucial in diverse fields, such as transportation, climate, and energy.
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...
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.
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.
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.