arXiv AI
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Timestral

Timestral is a family of four time‑series foundation models (5M, 28M, 123M, and 209M parameters) designed for probabilistic forecasting. It achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on GIFT‑Eval, TIME, and fev‑bench, with the 209M and 123M variants topping every metric. The approach relies on Decoupled Horizon Forecasting, a covariate framework for known‑future variables, and a two‑stage training pipeline that first pre‑trains on synthetic data before fine‑tuning on real and synthetic data with extended context.

By Adrien Petralia, Alexandre Gavaudan, Artjom Joosen, Etienne Goffinet, Richard Kurle, Yassine El Ouahidi, Yassir Bendou, Abdelaziz Bounhar, Abhijeet Somani, Aditi Kabra, Adrian Valente, Adrien Sad\'e, Ahmed Djermani, Alan Jeffares, Albert Jiang, Alberto Bietti, Aleksandr Timashov, Alexandre Cahill, Alexandre Laval, Alexandre Sablayrolles, Alexandros Sanchez Vassopoulos, Am\'elie H\'eliou, Amos You, Andr\'e Jonasson, Andreas F\"urst, Andrew Bai, Andrew Ehrenberg, Andrew Zhao, Andy Lo, Angele Lenglemetz, Anmol Agarwal, Antonia Calvi, Arata Suzuki, Arjun Majumdar, Arthur Fournier, Ashwani Kumar, Augustin Lombard, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Aylin Guliz Akkus, Aysenur Karaduman, Baptiste Bout, Baptiste Rozi\`ere, Barna P\'asztor, Baudouin De Monicault, Benjamin Holzschuh, Benjamin Tibi, Benno Stein, Bernhard Stadlbauer, Bhargavi Bhaskar, Binbing Hou, B{\l}a\.zej Osi\'nski, Boris van Breugel, Camille Le Scao, Chaoran Yu, Charlotte Cronj\"ager, Chen-Yo Sun, Chris Bamford, Christian Wallenwein, Christophe Renaudin, Cl\'emence Lanfranchi, Colin Bonatti, Corentin Barreau, Corentin Sautier, Cristiana-Diana Diaconu, Cyprien Courtot, Daniel Lopes, Daniel Marczak, Darius Dabert, Diego de las Casas, Dominik Nuss, Dylan Rubini, Dzmitry Soupel, Elizaveta Demyanenko, Elliot Chane-Sane, Emilien Fugier, Emmanuel Gottlob, Erik Aas, Etienne Duchesne, Fabian Paischer, Fabian Schlager, Faruk Ahmed, Federico Baldassarre, F\'elix Rosseeuw, Filip Szatkowski, Filippo Vicentini, Florian Wiesner, Gabrielle Berrada, Ga\"etan Ecrepont, Gaspard Blanchet, Gaspard Donada-Vidal, Gaurav Mahajan, Gauthier Guinet, Genevieve Hayes, Georgii Novikov, Georgios Christoglou, Giada Pistilli, Gonzague de Carpentier, Graeme Nail, Guillaume Breton, Guillaume Kunsch, Guillaume Lample, Guillaume Martin, Guillaume Raille, Guillaume Richard, Guillem Simeon, Gunjan Dhanuka, Gunshi Gupta, Hamza Senhaji Rhazi, Han Zhou, H\'edi Hadiji, Himanshu Jaju, Hope McGovern, Hubert de Parseval, Hugo Cisneros, Hugo Germain, Hugo Thimonier, Hugo Venturini, Hyeonju Lee, Hyunwoo Oh, Iliass Lasri, Ilyas Oulkadda, Jacques Sun, Jan Ludziejewski, Jason Rute, Jean de Becdeli\`evre, Jean Quentin, Jean-Malo Delignon, Jessica Chudnovsky, Jianchao Li, Jie Zhang, Jin Bin Ou, Joachim Studnia, Joep Barmentlo, Johannes Brandstetter, John Harvill, Jonas Amar, Jonas Schweizer, Jonathan Roberts, Jos\'ephine Delas, Josselin Somerville, Jules Depersin, Julien Denize, Julien Tauran, Julien Verlaguet, Kartik Khandelwal, Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Kilian Tep, Konstantin Mishchenko, Kris Szczepaniak, Kush Jain, Larissa Laich, Laura Calem, Laurence Aitchison, Laurent Callot, Laurent Fainsin, L\'eo Cotteleer, L\'eonard Blier, Lo\"ic Chadoutaud, Lo\"ick Chambon, Lorenzo Proietti, Louis Faucon, Louis Martin, Louis Serrano, Lu Li, Luc Boudier, Lucas Fernandes Martins, Lucas Mebille, Lucile Saulnier, Ludovic Ho Fuh, Luis Montero, {\L}ukasz Borchmann, Maarten Buyl, Malik Hassan Raza, Manon Chossegros, Marcin Mo\.zejko, Margaret Jennings, Markus Hennerbichler, Martin Alexandre, Mathieu Poir\'ee, Mathieu Schmitt, Mathilde Guillaumin, Mathis Felardos, Matthieu Andr\'e, Matthieu Dinot, Matthieu Futeral, Maurits Bleeker, Mauro Comi, Max Mynter, Maxim Berman, Maxime Darrin, Maxime Langelier, Maxime Louis, Maximilian Augustin, Maximilian M\"uller, Mehdi Bouaziz, Melina Jingting Laimon, Mert Unsal, Mia Chiquier, Michael Pilcer, Micha{\l} Pietruszka, Micha{\l} Zaj\k{a}c, Micka\"el Seznec, Mikhail Biriuchinskii, Minh-Quang Pham, Minwoo Kang, Mircea Lica, Morgane Rivi\`ere, Namit Katariya, Natasha {\O}rregaard Klingenbrunn, Nathan Bout, Nathan Grinsztajn, Nathan Simpson, Neeraj Aggarwal, Neil Ashton, Neil Mallinar, Nick B\"uhrer, Nicolas Moreau, Nicol\`o Lucchesi, Ola Mysiak, Oliver Leicht, Olivier Bousquet, Olivier Koch, Parag Jain, Patricia Wang, Patrick Blies, Patrick von Platen, Patryk Saffer, Paul Jacob, Paul Teiletche, Paul Wambergue, Paula Kurylowicz, Pavan Kumar Reddy, Pavel Kuksa, Philippe Formont, Philippe Pinel, Philom\`ene 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