arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

FedChronos: Federated Fine-Tuning of Time-Series Foundation Models for Privacy-Preserving Commodity Price Forecasting

arXiv:2608. 01290v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time-series foundation models (TSFMs) such as Chronos have demonstrated strong forecasting capabilities across domains, yet adapting them to institutionally fragmented settings, where data cannot be centralized due to regulatory, competitive, or sovereignty constraints, remains unexplored.

By Amit Sharma, Nitin Auluck, Akramul Azim
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

Personalized Federated Sparse Adaptation of Time-Series Foundation Models

Federated adaptation of time-series foundation models (TSFMs) is attractive for building energy forecasting because meter data are private, distributed, and highly non-IID. However, a single parameter-sharing strategy is unlikely to serve all pretrained TSFMs or building clients: fully shared adapters can suppress building-specific temporal behavior, while fully local adaptation discards cross-building transfer.

arXiv Machine Learning
Oct 16

Sparse Federated Echo State Networks for Time-Series Classification via Smooth-L1 Regularization

The paper introduces Smooth‑L1 regularized Echo State Networks (SL1ESN) that encourage sparsity in the readout layer while remaining differentiable for gradient‑based training. Using a twice‑differentiable Smooth‑L1 approximation, SL1ESN is trained centrally and via a second‑order federated aggregation scheme, achieving 75–95% sparsity across seven time‑series classification benchmarks. The resulting sparse models reduce storage, inference cost, and communication overhead, with only minor accuracy loss compared to dense baselines.

By Gengcheng Lyu, Manuel R\"oder, Frank-Michael Schleif