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New research tackles training and evaluation challenges for time series foundation models

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Two new research papers explore challenges in training and evaluating time series foundation models (TSFMs). The first paper introduces ORBIT, a novel training paradigm designed to control distribution properties like domain imbalance and context requirements, and demonstrates its effectiveness with a Transformer model called Falcon-2.0. The second paper identifies a phenomenon called "forecast collapse" in TSFMs when predicting financial data, where predictions become flat and poorly ranked, and proposes a new objective function, CalibRank, to address this issue. AI

IMPACT These papers highlight critical areas for improvement in time series foundation models, potentially leading to more robust and accurate forecasting across various domains.

RANK_REASON Two arXiv papers introduce new methods for training and evaluating time series foundation models.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hongjie Xia, Yiding Liu, Yifan Hu, Peiyuan Liu, Zewei Dong ·

    Into the ORBIT for Time Series: Training Regimes for Foundation Models

    arXiv:2608.13262v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have advanced primarily through architectural innovation, while training regimes for large-scale heterogeneous corpora remain under-explored. As a result, pre-training distributions are often …

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Forecast Collapse in Time-Series Foundation Models

    Forecast collapse in hourly equity return prediction stems from low predictability and per-series objectives, and the proposed CalibRank objective balances calibration and ranking to restore cross-sectional structure.

  3. arXiv stat.ML TIER_1 English(EN) · Shu Wan, Miles Ma, Hank Zhu, Guangqi Liu, Stephen Wang, Qingsong Wen, Huan Liu ·

    Forecast Collapse in Time-Series Foundation Models

    arXiv:2608.14106v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: When forecasting hourly returns for 1,000 US equities, we observe an unexpected phenomenon: predictions become nearly flat and show poor stock ranking, as measured by cross-sectional correlation. We call this forecast collapse. Su…

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