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13 papers

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…

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Optimal Self-Consistency for Efficient Reasoning with Large Language Models

Austin Feng, Marius Alonso, Ambroise Odonnat +2

Self-consistency (SC) is a widely used test-time inference technique for improving performance in chain-of-thought reasoning. It consists of generating multiple responses, or ``sam…

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The Red Queen Gödel Machine: Co-Evolving Agents and Their Evaluators

Alex Iacob, Andrej Jovanović, William F. Shen +10

Self-improving agents are state-of-the-art (SOTA) on agentic coding benchmarks and have recently been extended to general domains. However, their search methods generally assume a…

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A Mechanistic Study of Transformers Training Dynamics

Ambroise Odonnat, Wassim Bouaziz, Vivien Cabannes

Large-scale pretraining of transformers has been central to the success of foundation models. However, the scale of those models limits our understanding of the mechanisms at play…

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Vision Transformer Finetuning Benefits from Non-Smooth Components

Ambroise Odonnat, Laetitia Chapel, Romain Tavenard +1

The smoothness of the transformer architecture has been extensively studied in the context of generalization, training stability, and adversarial robustness. However, its role in t…

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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…