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TimesJev
arXiv paper proposing TimesJev, a time series System 1 model in Jev's instant-decision shape. It formalizes System 1 sufficiency and learns a compressed representation preserving key frequency patterns, reporting over 62% better results and 62.9% less inference time than fine-tuned reasoning models.
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- Proposes TimesJev, a time series System 1 model that decides instantly instead of using long chains of thought.
- Formalizes System 1 sufficiency in time series reasoning to motivate a compressed representation.
- Compression objective combines a sufficiency divergence and a realizability divergence.
- Reports outperforming reasoning models by over 62% across 13 datasets.
- Reports 62.9% less inference time on average than fine-tuned reasoning models.
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TimesJev is a time series System 1 model proposed in an arXiv paper. The authors describe it as a very early attempt to bring the instant-decision shape of models such as Jev to time series reasoning, rather than relying on long chains of thought that consume thousands of tokens.
The paper states that raw time series are not compatible with the embedding space of System 1 models, which hinders reasoning performance, especially when an input series contains thousands of numeric points. TimesJev addresses this gap with a compressed representation.
It learns a time series compression with a gating mechanism for sufficiency, producing a compressed representation that preserves key frequency patterns. The selected representation is then aligned with the System 1 model's embedding space for realizability.
The paper derives a dimension reduction objective combining two terms: a sufficiency divergence that measures the core information lost during compression, and a realizability divergence that quantifies how incompatible the System 1 model is with the optimal prediction given that representation.
Experiments on 13 datasets report that TimesJev outperforms reasoning models by over 62% while using 62.9% less inference time on average than their fine-tuned versions. The comparison is against fine-tuned reasoning models, not against untuned baselines.
The paper reports experiments on 13 datasets. Those experiments cover both the accuracy comparison against reasoning models and the average inference-time comparison against their fine-tuned versions.
The authors describe it as a very early attempt at a time series System 1 model, and the reported gains are averages over 13 datasets. The digest does not state a code release, license, or deployment surface for TimesJev.
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