arXiv:2604.11529cs.LG2026-04被引 5

为时间序列预测模型设计了更公平、全面的评估框架。

TempusBench: An Evaluation Framework for Time-Series Forecasting

  • 构建新数据集与任务,避开预训练数据重叠问题
  • 统一调参标准,解决不同模型间比较不公平
  • 提供可视化工具和实时排行榜,便于性能对比

基础模型已改变自然语言处理与计算机视觉领域,时间序列基础模型(TSFMs)的研究正试图复制这一成功。尽管近期开源模型展现出潜力,但该领域仍缺乏一个全面且被社区广泛接受的评估框架。现有框架存在四大问题:一是使用过时数据集(如M3),且缺乏清晰元数据,部分数据与预训练语料重叠;二是评估任务单一,忽视非平稳性、季节性等核心统计特性;三是对领域特定模型(如XGBoost)比较不公,因未统一超参数调优规范;四是缺少可视化工具用于性能对比。为此,我们提出TempusBench,一个开源评估框架,包含:1)未在现有TSFM预训练语料中使用的全新数据集;2)超越现有任务的新基准任务;3)标准化超参数调优流程的评估管道;4)基于TensorBoard的可视化界面。代码已开源至GitHub:https://github.com/Smlcrm/TempusBench,实时排行榜可访问:https://benchmark.smlcrm.com/。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Foundation models have transformed natural language processing and computer vision, and a rapidly growing literature on time-series foundation models (TSFMs) seeks to replicate this success in forecasting. While recent open-source models demonstrate the promise of TSFMs, the field lacks a comprehensive and community-accepted model evaluation framework. We see at least four major issues impeding progress on the development of such a framework. First, existing evaluation frameworks comprise benchmark forecasting tasks derived from often outdated datasets (e.g., M3), many of which lack clear metadata and overlap with the corpora used to pre-train TSFMs. Second, these frameworks evaluate models along a narrowly defined set of benchmark forecasting tasks, such as forecast horizon length or domain, but overlook core statistical properties such as non-stationarity and seasonality. Third, domain-specific models (e.g., XGBoost) are often compared unfairly, as existing frameworks do not enforce a systematic and consistent hyperparameter tuning convention for all models. Fourth, visualization tools for interpreting comparative performance are lacking. To address these issues, we introduce TempusBench, an open-source evaluation framework for TSFMs. TempusBench consists of 1) new datasets which are not included in existing TSFM pretraining corpora, 2) a set of novel benchmark tasks that go beyond existing ones, 3) a model evaluation pipeline with a standardized hyperparameter tuning protocol, and 4) a tensorboard-based visualization interface. We provide access to our code on GitHub: https://github.com/Smlcrm/TempusBench and maintain a live leaderboard at https://benchmark.smlcrm.com/.

时间序列评估框架基准测试

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