arXiv Machine Learning August 7, 2026 By Xinran Feng, Yi Xie, Chao Zhang, Ruikun Li, Wanyun Ling, Ziyue Li, Chenxi Liu

Decoupling Perception from Description: Computation-Grounded Representation Alignment between Multivariate Time Series and Language

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arXiv:2608. 05238v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training multimodal models to align time series with language runs into a self-supervision trap.

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