Summary of Chattime: a Unified Multimodal Time Series Foundation Model Bridging Numerical and Textual Data, by Chengsen Wang and Qi Qi and Jingyu Wang and Haifeng Sun and Zirui Zhuang and Jinming Wu and Lei Zhang and Jianxin Liao
ChatTime: A Unified Multimodal Time Series Foundation Model Bridging Numerical and Textual Data
by Chengsen Wang, Qi Qi, Jingyu Wang, Haifeng Sun, Zirui Zhuang, Jinming Wu, Lei Zhang, Jianxin Liao
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents ChatTime, a unified framework for time series and text processing that enables zero-shot forecasting capability. Traditional deep learning predictors rely solely on unimodal numerical data, which limits their adaptability to different scenarios. To address this limitation, the authors model time series as a foreign language and develop a powered pre-trained large language model. The proposed framework supports bimodal input/output for both time series and text, making it suitable for various applications. The paper includes four multimodal datasets to address data gaps and demonstrates superior performance of ChatTime across multiple tasks and scenarios. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research creates a new way to analyze time series by using both numerical and textual information. Currently, most AI models only look at numbers, but this paper shows that combining text and numbers can lead to better results. The authors develop a special model called ChatTime that can understand time series data as if it were a foreign language. This means it can make predictions without needing more training data. The researchers test their model on different tasks and show that it performs well across many scenarios. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Large language model » Time series » Zero shot
