Awesome Foundation Models
Foundation Models is one of the most active areas in Awesome Time Series β 694 papers in this collection, evaluated on datasets like GIFT-Eval, MIMIC-III, M5. A strong starting point is "LLM4TS: Aligning Pre-Trained LLMs as Data-Efficient Time-Series Forecasters".
Datasets & benchmarks
Key papers
- LLM4TS: Aligning Pre-Trained LLMs as Data-Efficient Time-Series
Forecasters (2023)Ching Chang et al.14.28
- Deep Time Series Models: A Comprehensive Survey and Benchmark (2024)Yuxuan Wang et al.13.40
- Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting (2025)Abdul Fatir Ansari et al.11.41
- Time-VLM: Exploring Multimodal Vision-Language Models for Augmented Time Series Forecasting (2025)Siru Zhong et al.10.54
- Multi-modal Time Series Analysis: A Tutorial and Survey (2025)Yushan Jiang et al.10.40
- LangTime: A Language-Guided Unified Model for Time Series Forecasting with Proximal Policy Optimization (2025)Wenzhe Niu et al.8.67
- fev-bench: A Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting (2025)Oleksandr Shchur et al.8.16
- ChronosX: Adapting Pretrained Time Series Models with Exogenous
Variables (2025)Sebastian Pineda Arango et al.7.95
- From Values to Tokens: An LLM-Driven Framework for Context-aware Time Series Forecasting via Symbolic Discretization (2025)Xiaoyu Tao et al.7.68
- Time-Series Foundation Model Embeddings for Remaining Useful Life Estimation (2026)Amir El-Ghoussani et al.7.37
- Looped World Models (2026)Hongyuan Adam Lu et al.7.37
- Aurora: Towards Universal Generative Multimodal Time Series Forecasting (2025)Xingjian Wu et al.7.22
- Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets (2025)Yu Shi et al.7.17
- FinCast: A Foundation Model for Financial Time-Series Forecasting (2025)Zhuohang Zhu et al.7.17
- Empowering Time Series Forecasting with LLM-Agents (2025)Chin-Chia Michael Yeh and Vivian Lai and Uday Singh Saini and Xiran Fan and Yujie Fan and Junpeng Wang and Xin Dai and Yan Zheng6.75
- Vision-Enhanced Time Series Forecasting via Latent Diffusion Models (2025)Weilin Ruan et al.6.63
- Panda: A pretrained forecast model for chaotic dynamics (2025)Jeffrey Lai et al.6.58
- FlowState: Sampling Rate Invariant Time Series Forecasting (2025)Lars Graf et al.6.51
- Time-MoE: Billion-Scale Time Series Foundation Models with Mixture of
Experts (2024)Xiaoming Shi et al.6.36
- Enhancing Time Series Forecasting via Multi-Level Text Alignment with LLMs (2025)Taibiao Zhao et al.6.01
- Large Language Models for Mobility Analysis in Transportation Systems: A
Survey on Forecasting Tasks (2024)Zijian Zhang et al.5.91
- TempoPFN: Synthetic Pre-training of Linear RNNs for Zero-shot Time Series Forecasting (2025)Vladyslav Moroshan and Julien Siems and Arber Zela and Timur Carstensen and Frank Hutter5.68
- TimeCAP: Learning to Contextualize, Augment, and Predict Time Series
Events with Large Language Model Agents (2025)Geon Lee et al.5.59
- Using Pre-trained LLMs for Multivariate Time Series Forecasting (2025)Malcolm L. Wolff et al.5.54
- TempoGPT: Enhancing Time Series Reasoning via Quantizing Embedding (2025)Haochuan Zhang et al.5.54
- EHRNote-ChatQA: A Benchmark for Evidence-Grounded Multi-Turn Clinical Question Answering over Longitudinal Discharge Summaries (2026)Jiyoun Kim et al.5.49
- Public transit gains and spatially uneven travel demand changes after NYC congestion pricing (2026)Donghang Li et al.5.49
- Efficient Multivariate Time Series Forecasting via Calibrated Language
Models with Privileged Knowledge Distillation (2025)Chenxi Liu et al.5.40
- ST-MTM: Masked Time Series Modeling with Seasonal-Trend Decomposition for Time Series Forecasting (2025)Hyunwoo Seo and Chiehyeon Lim5.10
- LLM Features Can Hurt GNNs: Concatenation Interference on Homophilous Graph Benchmarks (2026)Zhongyuan Wang et al.5.01
- LLM Consumer Behavior Theory: Foundations of a Novel Research Field (2026)Manon Reusens et al.5.01
- Your AI Travel Agent Would Book You a Bullfight: An Agentic Benchmark for Implicit Animal Welfare in Frontier AI Models (2026)Jasmine Brazilek et al.5.01
- Towards Cross-Modality Modeling for Time Series Analytics: A Survey in
the LLM Era (2025)Chenxi Liu et al.4.98
- Forging Time Series with Language: A Large Language Model Approach to Synthetic Data Generation (2025)C\'ecile Rousseau et al.4.98
- TimeSeriesScientist: A General-Purpose AI Agent for Time Series Analysis (2025)Haokun Zhao et al.4.90
- Crime Forecasting: A Spatio-temporal Analysis with Deep Learning Models (2025)Li Mao et al.4.82
- From Tables to Time: Extending TabPFN-v2 to Time Series Forecasting (2025)Shi Bin Hoo et al.4.76
- Unveiling the Potential of Text in High-Dimensional Time Series
Forecasting (2025)Xin Zhou and Weiqing Wang and Shilin Qu and Zhiqiang Zhang and Christoph Bergmeir4.76
- Joint Embeddings Go Temporal (2025)Sofiane Ennadir et al.4.69
- CALF: Aligning LLMs for Time Series Forecasting via Cross-modal
Fine-Tuning (2024)Peiyuan Liu et al.4.63
- Foundation Models for Demand Forecasting via Dual-Strategy Ensembling (2025)Wei Yang et al.4.58
- Benchmarking Pre-Trained Time Series Models for Electricity Price Forecasting (2025)Timoth\'ee Hornek Amir Sartipi and Igor Tchappi and Gilbert Fridgen4.53
- Generalisation Bounds of Zero-Shot Economic Forecasting using Time Series Foundation Models (2025)Jittarin Jetwiriyanon et al.4.53
- How Effective are Large Time Series Models in Hydrology? A Study on Water Level Forecasting in Everglades (2025)Rahuul Rangaraj et al.4.47
- Explainable and Interpretable Forecasts on Non-Smooth Multivariate Time
Series for Responsible Gameplay (2025)Hussain Jagirdar et al.4.42
- Forecasting Clinical Risk from Textual Time Series: Structuring Narratives for Temporal AI in Healthcare (2025)Shahriar Noroozizadeh et al.4.42
- Bridging Distribution Gaps in Time Series Foundation Model Pretraining
with Prototype-Guided Normalization (2025)Peiliang Gong et al.4.42
- Discovering Functionally Selective Brain Regions with a Deep Topographic Multimodal Model (2026)Badr AlKhamissi et al.4.39
- CITRAS-FM: Tiny Time Series Foundation Model for Covariate-Informed Zero-Shot Forecasting (2026)Yosuke Yamaguchi et al.4.39
- LakeFM: Toward a Foundation Model for Aquatic Ecosystems Using Irregular Multivariate Multi-depth Time Series Data (2026)Abhilash Neog et al.4.39
- Medical Heuristic Learning: An LLM-Driven Framework for Interpretable and Auditable Clinical Decision Rules (2026)Wei Xu et al.4.39
- Comprehensive pKa Data Augmentation from Limited Real Data through an Engineered Models-Quantum Framework (2026)Wang Rui et al.4.39
- Quantum Cinema: An Interactive Cinematic Exploration of Quantum Computing Hardware via Generative World Models (2026)Aoyu Zhang et al.4.39
- Informative Missingness to Generate Irregular Clinical Time Series (2026)Hadi Mehdizavareh et al.4.39
- Models Take Notes at Prefill: KV Cache Can Be Editable and Composable (2026)Bojie Li4.39
- Loss Landscape Poisoning: Targeted Extraction of Unseen Training Data from LLMs (2026)Md Abdullah Al Mamun et al.4.39
- The Critical Role of Model Selection in Causal Inference: A Comparative Analysis of Classification Models within the InferBERT Framework for Pharmacovigilance (2026)Csaba Kiss et al.4.39
- Probing, Fusion, and Trustworthiness: A Systematic Evaluation of Foundation Model Representations for Multimodal Cancer Analysis (2026)Jingyu Hu et al.4.39
- Statistical Foundations of LLM-based A/B Testing: A Surrogacy Framework for Human Causal Inference (2026)Joel Persson et al.4.39
- Constrained Diffusion Models with Primal-Dual Inference (2026)Samar Hadou et al.4.39