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7 papers

cs.AI2026

A Survey of Reasoning and Agentic Systems in Time Series with Large Language Models

Ching Chang, Yidan Shi, Defu Cao +8

Time series reasoning treats time as a first-class axis and incorporates intermediate evidence directly into the answer. This survey defines the problem and organizes the literatur…

cs.LG2026

TS-Reasoner: Domain-Oriented Time Series Inference Agents for Reasoning and Automated Analysis

Wen Ye, Wei Yang, Defu Cao +4

Time series analysis is crucial in real-world applications, yet traditional methods focus on isolated tasks only, and recent studies on time series reasoning remain limited to eith…

cs.AI2026

Early Rug Pull Warning for BSC Meme Tokens via Multi-Granularity Wash-Trading Pattern Profiling

Dingding Cao, Bianbian Jiao, Jingzong Yang +2

The high-frequency issuance and short-cycle speculation of meme tokens in decentralized finance (DeFi) have significantly amplified rug-pull risk. Existing approaches still struggl…

cs.AI2026

TemporalBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating LLM-Based Agents on Contextual and Event-Informed Time Series Tasks

Muyan Weng, Defu Cao, Wei Yang +2

It is unclear whether strong forecasting performance reflects genuine temporal understanding or the ability to reason under contextual and event-driven conditions. We introduce Tem…

cs.AI2026

De-conflating Preference and Qualification: Constrained Dual-Perspective Reasoning for Job Recommendation with Large Language Models

Bryce Kan, Wei Yang, Emily Nguyen +4

Professional job recommendation involves a complex bipartite matching process that must reconcile a candidate's subjective preference with an employer's objective qualification. Wh…

cs.LG2025

When LLM Meets Time Series: Can LLMs Perform Multi-Step Time Series Reasoning and Inference

Wen Ye, Jinbo Liu, Defu Cao +2

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has sparked growing interest in their application to time series analysis tasks. However, their ability to perform complex rea…