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most citedAre Language Models Actually Useful for Time Series Forecasting?

25 citations · 25 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

cs.LG2026

SEER: Self-Evolving Event Reasoning and Retrieval for Time Series Forecasting

Mingtian Tan, Palash Goyal, Mihir Parmar +6

Real-world time series are frequently driven by exogenous events and structural shifts, rendering conventional forecasting based solely on historical numerical observations insuffi…

cs.LG2026

LEAF: A Living Benchmark for Event-Augmented Forecasting

Mingtian Tan, Mihir Parmar, Palash Goyal +5

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to real-world forecasting tasks, yet evaluating their true predictive capability remains compromised by pre-training data cont…

cs.AI2025

Toward Reasoning-Centric Time-Series Analysis

Xinlei Wang, Mingtian Tan, Jing Qiu +2

Traditional time series analysis has long relied on pattern recognition, trained on static and well-established benchmarks. However, in real-world settings -- where policies shift,…

cs.AI2025

Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models

Mingtian Tan, Mike A. Merrill, Zack Gottesman +3

A common goal in analyzing time series data is to understand how events cause observed variations. We study whether Large Language Models (LLMs) can infer natural language events a…

cs.LG2024★ 25 cited

Are Language Models Actually Useful for Time Series Forecasting?

Mingtian Tan, Mike A. Merrill, Vinayak Gupta +2

Large language models (LLMs) are being applied to time series forecasting. But are language models actually useful for time series? In a series of ablation studies on three recent…

cs.CL2024

Language Models Still Struggle to Zero-shot Reason about Time Series

Mike A. Merrill, Mingtian Tan, Vinayak Gupta +2

Time series are critical for decision-making in fields like finance and healthcare. Their importance has driven a recent influx of works passing time series into language models, l…