Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting
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| author | Ansari, Abdul Fatir Shchur, Oleksandr Küken, Jaris Auer, Andreas Han, Boran Mercado, Pedro Rangapuram, Syama Sundar Shen, Huibin Stella, Lorenzo Zhang, Xiyuan Goswami, Mononito Kapoor, Shubham Maddix, Danielle C. Guerron, Pablo Hu, Tony Yin, Junming Erickson, Nick Desai, Prateek Mutalik Wang, Hao Rangwala, Huzefa Karypis, George Wang, Yuyang Bohlke-Schneider, Michael |
| author_facet | Ansari, Abdul Fatir Shchur, Oleksandr Küken, Jaris Auer, Andreas Han, Boran Mercado, Pedro Rangapuram, Syama Sundar Shen, Huibin Stella, Lorenzo Zhang, Xiyuan Goswami, Mononito Kapoor, Shubham Maddix, Danielle C. Guerron, Pablo Hu, Tony Yin, Junming Erickson, Nick Desai, Prateek Mutalik Wang, Hao Rangwala, Huzefa Karypis, George Wang, Yuyang Bohlke-Schneider, Michael |
| contents | Pretrained time series models have enabled inference-only forecasting systems that produce accurate predictions without task-specific training. However, existing approaches largely focus on univariate forecasting, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where multivariate data and covariates play a crucial role. We present Chronos-2, a pretrained model capable of handling univariate, multivariate, and covariate-informed forecasting tasks in a zero-shot manner. Chronos-2 employs a group attention mechanism that facilitates in-context learning (ICL) through efficient information sharing across multiple time series within a group, which may represent sets of related series, variates of a multivariate series, or targets and covariates in a forecasting task. These general capabilities are achieved through training on synthetic datasets that impose diverse multivariate structures on univariate series. Chronos-2 delivers state-of-the-art performance across three comprehensive benchmarks: fev-bench, GIFT-Eval, and Chronos Benchmark II. On fev-bench, which emphasizes multivariate and covariate-informed forecasting, Chronos-2's universal ICL capabilities lead to substantial improvements over existing models. On tasks involving covariates, it consistently outperforms baselines by a wide margin. Case studies in the energy and retail domains further highlight its practical advantages. The in-context learning capabilities of Chronos-2 establish it as a general-purpose forecasting model that can be used "as is" in real-world forecasting pipelines. |
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| spellingShingle | Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting Ansari, Abdul Fatir Shchur, Oleksandr Küken, Jaris Auer, Andreas Han, Boran Mercado, Pedro Rangapuram, Syama Sundar Shen, Huibin Stella, Lorenzo Zhang, Xiyuan Goswami, Mononito Kapoor, Shubham Maddix, Danielle C. Guerron, Pablo Hu, Tony Yin, Junming Erickson, Nick Desai, Prateek Mutalik Wang, Hao Rangwala, Huzefa Karypis, George Wang, Yuyang Bohlke-Schneider, Michael Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Pretrained time series models have enabled inference-only forecasting systems that produce accurate predictions without task-specific training. However, existing approaches largely focus on univariate forecasting, limiting their applicability in real-world scenarios where multivariate data and covariates play a crucial role. We present Chronos-2, a pretrained model capable of handling univariate, multivariate, and covariate-informed forecasting tasks in a zero-shot manner. Chronos-2 employs a group attention mechanism that facilitates in-context learning (ICL) through efficient information sharing across multiple time series within a group, which may represent sets of related series, variates of a multivariate series, or targets and covariates in a forecasting task. These general capabilities are achieved through training on synthetic datasets that impose diverse multivariate structures on univariate series. Chronos-2 delivers state-of-the-art performance across three comprehensive benchmarks: fev-bench, GIFT-Eval, and Chronos Benchmark II. On fev-bench, which emphasizes multivariate and covariate-informed forecasting, Chronos-2's universal ICL capabilities lead to substantial improvements over existing models. On tasks involving covariates, it consistently outperforms baselines by a wide margin. Case studies in the energy and retail domains further highlight its practical advantages. The in-context learning capabilities of Chronos-2 establish it as a general-purpose forecasting model that can be used "as is" in real-world forecasting pipelines. |
| title | Chronos-2: From Univariate to Universal Forecasting |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.15821 |