arXiv Machine Learning July 3, 2026 By Yisong Fu, Zezhi Shao, Chengqing Yu, Yujie Li, Yongjun Xu, Xueqi Cheng, Fei Wang

Zeus: Towards Tuning-Free Foundation Model for Time Series Analysis

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arXiv:2607. 01918v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present Zeus, a unified tuning-free Time Series Foundation Model (TSFM) that delivers superior performance across diverse analysis tasks without any task-specific fine-tuning.

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