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StarEmbed: Benchmarking Time Series Foundation Models on Astronomical Observations of Variable Stars

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arXiv:2510. 06200v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Current time series foundation model (TSFM) training corpora largely omit data with certain complexities like irregular temporal sampling.

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