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Research paperLarge Language Models · Training & Scaling1 source · Oct 8, 2026

Timer-M1: A Multivariate Time Series Foundation Model via Learning Primitives

We introduce Timer-M1, a pretrained multivariate time series foundation model that learns with primitives for zero-shot forecasting.

Key points

  • Across domains, time series share elementary temporal and relational patterns, termed primitives, yet differ in how these primitives manifest and evolve across different contexts.
  • To this end, we develop a primitive-based data synthesis and pretraining pipeline.
  • The synthesis pipeline generates series with temporal primitives shared across domains and then assembles real and generated series into multivariate samples using relational primitives.
  • These results support effective primitive-based pretraining as a route to robust general forecasting technique across domains and task settings.

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  • [1]Timer-M1: A Multivariate Time Series Foundation Model via Learning Primitives
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 8, 11:28 AM
    We introduce Timer-M1, a pretrained multivariate time series foundation model that learns with primitives for zero-shot forecasting.
    Across domains, time series share elementary temporal and relational patterns, termed primitives, yet differ in how these primitives manifest and evolve across different contexts.

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