Part V: Foundation Models and Agentic Sensing
Chapter 19  [R]

Time-Series Foundation Models

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Sections

  1. 19.1 What makes a model a "foundation" model for time series
  2. 19.2 Pretraining corpora and tokenization (patching vs value tokenization)
  3. 19.3 Model families: TimesFM, Chronos/Chronos-Bolt, Moirai/Moirai-MoE, MOMENT, Time-MoE, TTM/TinyTimeMixers, Lag-Llama, Toto, UniTS, Timer
  4. 19.4 Zero-shot and few-shot forecasting, classification, imputation, anomaly detection
  5. 19.5 Foundation-model embeddings as features for downstream tasks
  6. 19.6 The evaluation crisis: leakage, non-stationarity, and honest benchmarking (GIFT-Eval, Monash, LOTSA)
  7. 19.7 When a foundation model helps and when a small model wins

Lab 19

apply a pretrained TSFM zero-shot to a new sensor dataset; compare against a tuned task-specific model and a fair-baseline check.