Summary of Chatts: Aligning Time Series with Llms Via Synthetic Data For Enhanced Understanding and Reasoning, by Zhe Xie et al.
ChatTS: Aligning Time Series with LLMs via Synthetic Data for Enhanced Understanding and Reasoning
by Zhe Xie, Zeyan Li, Xiao He, Longlong Xu, Xidao Wen, Tieying Zhang, Jianjun Chen, Rui Shi, Dan Pei
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces ChatTS, a novel multimodal large language model (MLLM) designed for time series analysis. By treating time series as a modality, similar to how vision MLLMs process images, ChatTS enables understanding and reasoning with time series. The authors propose an attribute-based method for generating synthetic time series with detailed attribute descriptions to address the scarcity of training data. They also introduce Time Series Evol-Instruct, a novel approach that generates diverse time series Q&As, enhancing the model’s reasoning capabilities. To evaluate ChatTS’ performance, the authors use benchmark datasets with real-world data, including six alignment tasks and four reasoning tasks. The results show that ChatTS significantly outperforms existing vision-based MLLMs (e.g., GPT-4o) and text/agent-based LLMs, achieving a 46.0% improvement in alignment tasks and a 25.8% improvement in reasoning tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary ChatTS is a new way to understand and reason with time series data. It’s like a super smart computer that can look at patterns in time series data, like how temperature changes over time, and make sense of it. The problem is that there aren’t many examples of time series data that have detailed information about what’s happening. So, the authors created a way to generate fake time series data with lots of details. They also came up with a new way to ask questions about this data, which helps the computer learn and get better at understanding time series. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Gpt » Large language model » Temperature » Time series
