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This Time is Different An Perspective on Time Series Foundation Models
We introduce TOTO, a time series forecasting foundation model with 151 million parameters. TOTO uses a modern decoder-only architecture coupled with architectural innovations designed to account for specific challenges found in multivariate observability time series data. TOTO's pre-training corpus is a mixture of observability data, open datasets, and synthetic data, and is 4-10 larger than those of leading time series foundation models. Additionally, we introduce BOOM, a large-scale benchmark consisting of 350 million observations across 2,807 real-world time series. For both TOTO and BOOM, we source observability data exclusively from Datadog's own telemetry and internal observability metrics. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that TOTO achieves state-of-the-art performance on both BOOM and on established general purpose time series forecasting benchmarks.
Exploring Neural Granger Causality with xLSTMs: Unveiling Temporal Dependencies in Complex Data
Causality in time series can be challenging to determine, especially in the presence of non-linear dependencies. Granger causality helps analyze potential relationships between variables, thereby offering a method to determine whether one time series can predict--Granger cause--future values of another.
xLSTM-Mixer: Multivariate Time Series Forecasting by Mixing via Scalar Memories
Time series data is prevalent across numerous fields, necessitating the development of robust and accurate forecasting models. Capturing patterns both within and between temporal and multivariate components is crucial for reliable predictions. We introduce xLSTM-Mixer, a model designed to effectively integrate temporal sequences, joint time-variate information, and multiple perspectives for robust forecasting. Our approach begins with a linear forecast shared across variates, which is then refined by xLSTM blocks. They serve as key elements for modeling the complex dynamics of challenging time series data.
Introducing ARFBench: A time series question-answering benchmark based on real incidents
More than a trillion dollars are lost every year due to system failures. To resolve them, engineers must troubleshoot outages quickly. An important task in incident response involves analyzing observability metrics, or time series data that snapshot the health of software systems. For example, an engineer for a service may use Datadog to answer questions like "When did latency start increasing?" and "What metrics outside of latency are also behaving abnormally?" to localize the root cause of the anomalous behavior. These time series question-answering (TSQA) tasks are essential for engineers, and present challenging and necessary tasks for SRE models and agents to perform.
DecompKAN: Decomposed Patch-KAN for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting
Accurate time series forecasting in scientific domains such as climate modeling, physiological monitoring, and energy systems benefits from both competitive predictions and model transparency: practitioners value understanding how a model transforms temporal features, not merely what it predicts. Transformer-based models achieve strong accuracy but their attention weights reveal only token-level relevance, not the functional transformations applied to each feature. This work proposes DECOMPKAN, a lightweight attention-free architecture that combines trend-residual decomposition, channel-wise patching, learned instance normalization, and B-spline Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (KAN) edge functions. Each KAN edge learns an explicit, inspectable 1D scalar function ฯ(x) over learned patch-embedding coordinates that can be directly visualized, offering a form of architectural transparency not directly available in attention-based or MLP-based architectures. On standard benchmarks, DECOMPKAN achieves best or tied-best MSE on 15 of 32 dataset-horizon combinations among selected published baselines, and achieves best or tied-best MSE on 20 of 36 comparisons (25 of 36 MAE; ties counted for all tied models) under a controlled same-recipe evaluation across 9 datasets including the physiological PPG-DaLiA benchmark. The architecture shows particular strength on datasets with smooth temporal dynamics (Solar 17%, ECL 10%vs.
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Thefirsttwocolumns showresults for two different step-sizes, and the third one using the best step-size chosen retrospectively. The plots show the final ELBO achieved after trainingfor40000stepsvs. stepsizeused. Figure 11: VI using a diagonal Gaussian, with the best step-size chosen retrospectively. Bayesian logistic regression: We use a subset of700 rows of thea1a dataset. In this case the posterior p(z|x) has dimensionality d = 120.