Time-Series Retrieval for Grounding Multimodal Language Models in Remaining Useful Life Prediction

The paper explores remaining useful life (RUL) estimation using multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that are grounded through time‑series retrieval. It proposes a framework that retrieves historically similar degradation segments, combines them with the test trajectory into a visual comparison artifact, and processes this via a structured multimodal prompt. Experiments on the FD001 partition of the C‑MAPSS benchmark show that retrieval consistently improves RUL prediction, with greater benefits for larger MLLMs, while also revealing current limitations in practical prognostics and health management (PHM) settings.

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• llms
• rag
• agents
• multimodal
• benchmarks