Are language models actually useful for time series forecasting?

M Tan, M Merrill, V Gupta, T Althoff… - Advances in Neural …, 2025 - proceedings.neurips.cc
Large language models (LLMs) are being applied to time series forecasting. But are
language models actually useful for time series? In a series of ablation studies on three …

Time-Series Large Language Models: A Systematic Review of State-of-the-Art

S Abdullahi, KU Danyaro, A Zakari, IA Aziz… - IEEE …, 2025 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
Software Engineering by fostering innovation, streamlining processes, and enabling data …

ChatTS: Aligning Time Series with LLMs via Synthetic Data for Enhanced Understanding and Reasoning

Z **e, Z Li, X He, L Xu, X Wen, T Zhang, J Chen… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Understanding time series is crucial for its application in real-world scenarios. Recently,
large language models (LLMs) have been increasingly applied to time series tasks …

A picture is worth a thousand numbers: Enabling llms reason about time series via visualization

H Liu, C Liu, BA Prakash - arxiv preprint arxiv:2411.06018, 2024 - arxiv.org
Large language models (LLMs), with demonstrated reasoning abilities across multiple
domains, are largely underexplored for time-series reasoning (TsR), which is ubiquitous in …

TempoGPT: Enhancing Temporal Reasoning via Quantizing Embedding

H Zhang, C Yang, J Han, L Qin, X Wang - arxiv preprint arxiv:2501.07335, 2025 - arxiv.org
Multi-modal language model has made advanced progress in vision and audio, but still
faces significant challenges in dealing with complex reasoning tasks in the time series …

EF-LLM: Energy Forecasting LLM with AI-assisted Automation, Enhanced Sparse Prediction, Hallucination Detection

Z Qiu, C Li, Z Wang, R **e, B Zhang, H Mo… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Accurate prediction helps to achieve supply-demand balance in energy systems, supporting
decision-making and scheduling. Traditional models, lacking AI-assisted automation, rely on …