Pretraining on synthetic primitive patterns enables robust zero-shot multivariate time series forecasting

Timer-M1 uses temporal and relational primitives to generate diverse training episodes and sets new benchmarks on three forecasting evaluations

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Haoran Zhang · Haixuan Liu · Xingjian Su · Yong Liu · Zhi Chen · Yuxuan Wang · +2 more

Tsinghua University · ByteDance

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The authors introduce Timer-M1, a multivariate time series foundation model pretrained on a pipeline that synthesizes elementary temporal patterns (trend, seasonality, regime changes) and cross-variate relations.

Timer-M1 is built on a primitive-based data synthesis and pretraining pipeline.

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From ByteDance and Tsinghua University

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Timer-M1 is a pretrained multivariate forecasting model that learns temporal and relational primitives for zero-shot generalization.

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