arXiv AI July 14, 2026 By Juntao Fang, Shifeng Xie, Shengbin Nie, Yuhui Ling, Yuming Liu, Zijian Li, Keli Zhang, Lujia Pan, Themis Palpanas, Ruichu Cai

Rethinking Zero-Shot Time Series Classification: From Task-specific Classifiers to In-Context Inference

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arXiv:2602. 00620v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The zero-shot evaluation of time series foundation models (TSFMs) for classification typically uses a frozen encoder followed by a task-specific classifier.

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