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20192026
most citedgCastle: A Python Toolbox for Causal Discovery

27 citations · 49 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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23 papers

cs.LG2026

Instance-Adaptive Prompts as Context for Time-Series Foundation Models

Zehao Xiao, Shifeng Xie, Lei Zan +5

Longer histories can improve time-series foundation models (TSFMs), but require substantially higher inference cost. We therefore ask whether contextual information can be provided…

cs.LG2026

Tabby: An Open Pretraining Recipe for Time Series Foundation Models

Shifeng Xie, Bahaeddine Abdessalem, Zehao Xiao +9

In this report, we release Tabby, a long context probabilistic time series foundation model, together with a complete and open recipe of how it was built. Tabby adopts an encoder-o…

cs.LG2026

FlowTSFM: Turning Encoder Depth into Quantile Transport

Bahaeddine Abdessalem, Shifeng Xie, Zehao Xiao +6

Encoder-based time series foundation models (TSFMs) typically rely on deep stacks of independently parameterized Transformer layers, where only the final forecast is supervised and…

cs.LG2026

ChorusTIC: Training-Free Multivariate Time Series Classification via Chorus In-Context Learning

Juntao Fang, Shifeng Xie, Ruichu Cai +6

Time series classification underpins applications in healthcare, sensing, and industrial monitoring. Although time series foundation models support forecasting and transferable rep…

cs.LG2026

Post-Training in Time Series Foundation Models: A Unifying Framework

Shifeng Xie, Ambroise Odonnat, Zehao Xiao +7

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have emerged as general-purpose models for time series analysis, but pretraining alone is often insufficient for reliable downstream deploymen…

cs.CL2026

SERE: Structural Example Retrieval for Enhancing LLMs in Event Causality Identification

Zhifeng Hao, Zhongjie Chen, Junhao Lu +5

Event Causality Identification (ECI) requires models to determine whether a given pair of events in a context exhibits a causal relationship. While Large Language Models (LLMs) hav…

cs.LG2026

Rethinking Zero-Shot Time Series Classification: From Task-specific Classifiers to In-Context Inference

Juntao Fang, Shifeng Xie, Shengbin Nie +7

The zero-shot evaluation of time series foundation models (TSFMs) for classification typically uses a frozen encoder followed by a task-specific classifier. However, this practice…

cs.LG2025

CauKer: Classification Time Series Foundation Models Can Be Pretrained on Synthetic Data

Shifeng Xie, Vasilii Feofanov, Ambroise Odonnat +7

Time series foundation models (TSFMs) have recently gained significant attention due to their strong zero-shot capabilities and widespread real-world applications. Such models typi…

cs.AI2025

CAMA: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models with Causal Knowledge

Lei Zan, Keli Zhang, Ruichu Cai +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated strong performance across a wide range of tasks, yet they still struggle with complex mathematical reasoning, a challenge fundamental…

cs.LG2025

Causal-aware Large Language Models: Enhancing Decision-Making Through Learning, Adapting and Acting

Wei Chen, Jiahao Zhang, Haipeng Zhu +5

Large language models (LLMs) have shown great potential in decision-making due to the vast amount of knowledge stored within the models. However, these pre-trained models are prone…

cs.AI2025

An Identifiable Cost-Aware Causal Decision-Making Framework Using Counterfactual Reasoning

Ruichu Cai, Xi Chen, Jie Qiao +5

Decision making under abnormal conditions is a critical process that involves evaluating the current state and determining the optimal action to restore the system to a normal stat…

cs.LG2025

Post-Training Corrections for Improved Time-Series Forecasting

Hamza Cherkaoui, Malik Tiomoko, Giuseppe Paolo +4

Time-series forecasting is a critical task in various business domains, but it remains inherently challenging. Typically, large forecasting models are trained in a single, resource…

cs.CL2025

CMCTS: A Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search Framework for Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Model

Qingwen Lin, Boyan Xu, Guimin Hu +4

This paper introduces the Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search (CMCTS) framework to enhance the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM). By incorporating…

cs.LG2023

TNPAR: Topological Neural Poisson Auto-Regressive Model for Learning Granger Causal Structure from Event Sequences

Yuequn Liu, Ruichu Cai, Wei Chen +5

Learning Granger causality from event sequences is a challenging but essential task across various applications. Most existing methods rely on the assumption that event sequences a…

cs.LG2023★ 2 cited

Structural Hawkes Processes for Learning Causal Structure from Discrete-Time Event Sequences

Jie Qiao, Ruichu Cai, Siyu Wu +3

Learning causal structure among event types from discrete-time event sequences is a particularly important but challenging task. Existing methods, such as the multivariate Hawkes p…

cs.LG2023★ 8 cited

Quantitatively Measuring and Contrastively Exploring Heterogeneity for Domain Generalization

Yunze Tong, Junkun Yuan, Min Zhang +4

Domain generalization (DG) is a prevalent problem in real-world applications, which aims to train well-generalized models for unseen target domains by utilizing several source doma…

cs.LG2022★ 3 cited

Time-Series Domain Adaptation via Sparse Associative Structure Alignment: Learning Invariance and Variance

Zijian Li, Ruichu Cai, Jiawei Chen +4

Domain adaptation on time-series data is often encountered in the industry but received limited attention in academia. Most of the existing domain adaptation methods for time-serie…

cs.LG2021★ 27 cited

gCastle: A Python Toolbox for Causal Discovery

Keli Zhang, Shengyu Zhu, Marcus Kalander +4

is an end-to-end Python toolbox for causal structure learning. It provides functionalities of generating data from either simulator or real-world dataset, learni…

cs.LG2021★ 2 cited

An Influence-based Approach for Root Cause Alarm Discovery in Telecom Networks

Keli Zhang, Marcus Kalander, Min Zhou +2

Alarm root cause analysis is a significant component in the day-to-day telecommunication network maintenance, and it is critical for efficient and accurate fault localization and f…

cs.LG2021★ 3 cited

THP: Topological Hawkes Processes for Learning Causal Structure on Event Sequences

Ruichu Cai, Siyu Wu, Jie Qiao +3

Learning causal structure among event types on multi-type event sequences is an important but challenging task. Existing methods, such as the Multivariate Hawkes processes, mostly…

cs.LG2020★ 2 cited

Time Series Domain Adaptation via Sparse Associative Structure Alignment

Ruichu Cai, Jiawei Chen, Zijian Li +6

Domain adaptation on time series data is an important but challenging task. Most of the existing works in this area are based on the learning of the domain-invariant representation…

cs.LG2020

Mixed Set Domain Adaptation

Sitong Mao, Keli Zhang, Fu-lai Chung

In the settings of conventional domain adaptation, categories of the source dataset are from the same domain (or domains for multi-source domain adaptation), which is not always tr…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

An Improvement of PAA on Trend-Based Approximation for Time Series

Chunkai Zhang, Yingyang Chen, Ao Yin +4

Piecewise Aggregate Approximation (PAA) is a competitive basic dimension reduction method for high-dimensional time series mining. When deployed, however, the limitations are obvio…