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Main Authors: Liu, Xu, Aksu, Taha, Liu, Juncheng, Wen, Qingsong, Liang, Yuxuan, Xiong, Caiming, Savarese, Silvio, Sahoo, Doyen, Li, Junnan, Liu, Chenghao
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.11411
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  • Time series analysis is crucial for understanding dynamics of complex systems. Recent advances in foundation models have led to task-agnostic Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) and Large Language Model-based Time Series Models (TSLLMs), enabling generalized learning and integrating contextual information. However, their success depends on large, diverse, and high-quality datasets, which are challenging to build due to regulatory, diversity, quality, and quantity constraints. Synthetic data emerge as a viable solution, addressing these challenges by offering scalable, unbiased, and high-quality alternatives. This survey provides a comprehensive review of synthetic data for TSFMs and TSLLMs, analyzing data generation strategies, their role in model pretraining, fine-tuning, and evaluation, and identifying future research directions.