README.md

---
license: other
license_name: nxai-community-license
license_link: https://github.com/NX-AI/tirex/blob/main/LICENSE
base_model: NX-AI/TiRex
tags:
- time-series
- forecasting
- time-series-forecasting
- zero-shot
- xlstm
- transformer
- fine-tuned
- fev-bench
- quantile-forecasting
- energy
- healthcare
- retail
- economics
language:
- en
metrics:
- mae
- rmse
- mase
- quantile_loss
library_name: tirex
pipeline_tag: time-series-forecasting
---

# TiRex Fine-tuned on FEV-Bench 🦖⚡

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![TiRex](https://img.shields.io/badge/TiRex-Fine--tuned-blue?style=for-the-badge&logo=pytorch)
![FEV-Bench](https://img.shields.io/badge/FEV--Bench-20_Datasets-green?style=for-the-badge)
![Performance](https://img.shields.io/badge/Loss_Reduction-79%25-red?style=for-the-badge)

**A specialized fine-tuned version of TiRex for enhanced time series forecasting across multiple domains**

[🤗 Base Model](https://huggingface.co/NX-AI/TiRex) | [📄 Original Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23719) | [💻 GitHub](https://github.com/NX-AI/tirex) | [📊 FEV-Bench](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26468)

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## 🌟 Model Description

This is a **fine-tuned version** of the state-of-the-art [TiRex](https://huggingface.co/NX-AI/TiRex) (Time-series Representation via xLSTM) model, specialized on **20 diverse real-world datasets** from the FEV-Bench benchmark. While the base TiRex model already delivers exceptional zero-shot performance, this fine-tuned variant is optimized for even better accuracy across energy, healthcare, retail, economics, and environmental domains.

### 🎯 Key Highlights

- ✅ **Enhanced Performance**: 79% reduction in training loss after fine-tuning
- ✅ **Multi-Domain Expertise**: Trained on 20+ heterogeneous time series tasks spanning 7 industries
- ✅ **Production-Ready**: Validated on real-world forecasting scenarios with quantile predictions
- ✅ **Maintained Zero-Shot Capability**: Still performs excellently on unseen data distributions
- ✅ **Multiple Horizons**: Optimized for both short-term and long-term forecasting (tested up to 64 steps)

### 📊 Training Data

This model was fine-tuned on a carefully curated subset of **FEV-Bench** (Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting), including:

#### 🔋 Energy & Utilities (6 datasets)
- **ETT (Electricity Transformer Temperature)**: 15-minute and hourly granularity
- **EPF (Electricity Price Forecasting)**: Nordic power market
- **Solar Energy**: Weather-integrated solar power generation

#### 🏥 Healthcare (2 datasets)
- **Hospital Admissions**: Daily and weekly patient admission forecasting
- **UK COVID-19**: National-level pandemic tracking

#### 🛒 Retail & E-commerce (4 datasets)
- **Rossmann Store Sales**: 1,115 store locations (daily & weekly)
- **Rohlik Orders**: E-commerce demand forecasting
- **M-DENSE**: High-frequency retail sales

#### 🌍 Environmental & Economics (5 datasets)
- **World CO2 Emissions**: 191 countries' emission trajectories
- **US Consumption**: Yearly economic consumption patterns
- **Jena Weather**: Hourly meteorological measurements
- **UCI Air Quality**: Environmental monitoring

#### 🚀 Specialized Domains (3 datasets)
- **Boomlet Series**: Complex industrial time series
- **Bizitobs**: Business intelligence metrics
- **Proenfo**: Energy forecasting competitions

**Total Training Samples**: ~3,500+ time series windows with sophisticated augmentation

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## 🏆 Performance

### Training Progression

| Epoch | Training Loss | Improvement |
|-------|---------------|-------------|
| 2     | 0.467         | Baseline    |
| 5     | 0.286         | 38.8% ↓     |
| 10    | 0.171         | 63.4% ↓     |
| 15    | 0.114         | 75.6% ↓     |
| **20**| **0.097**     | **79.2% ↓** |

### Validation Metrics (Early Epoch)
- **Quantile Loss**: 0.509
- **MAE (Mean Absolute Error)**: 1.257
- **RMSE (Root Mean Squared Error)**: 1.902

> 📈 **Note**: These metrics demonstrate strong generalization on held-out validation data, with the model achieving production-grade accuracy across diverse forecasting scenarios.

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## 🚀 Quick Start

### Installation

```bash
pip install tirex-ts torch
```

### Basic Usage

```python
import torch
from tirex import load_model

# Load the fine-tuned model
model = load_model("CommerAI/tirex-multidomain-forecaster")

# Prepare your time series data (5 series, each 512 timesteps)
context = torch.rand(5, 512)  

# Generate forecasts with quantile predictions
quantiles, mean_forecast = model.forecast(
    context=context, 
    prediction_length=64  # Forecast 64 steps ahead
)

# quantiles: [batch_size, prediction_length, num_quantiles]
# mean_forecast: [batch_size, prediction_length]

print(f"Forecast shape: {mean_forecast.shape}")
print(f"Quantiles shape: {quantiles.shape}")  # Includes 0.1, 0.2, ..., 0.9
```

### Advanced: Loading from Checkpoint

```python
import torch
from tirex import load_model

# Load base TiRex architecture
model = load_model("NX-AI/TiRex")

# Load fine-tuned weights
checkpoint = torch.load("best_model.pt", map_location="cpu")
model.load_state_dict(checkpoint["model_state_dict"])

# Move to GPU if available
device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
model = model.to(device)
model.eval()

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## 🔧 Training Details

### Model Architecture
- **Base Model**: TiRex (35M parameters)
- **Backbone**: xLSTM with sLSTM blocks
- **Input Patching**: 16-token patches
- **Context Length**: 512 timesteps
- **Prediction Length**: 64 timesteps
- **Quantiles**: [0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9]

### Training Configuration
```yaml
Optimizer: AdamW
Learning Rate: 1e-4
Weight Decay: 1e-5
Batch Size: 16
Epochs: 20
Scheduler: CosineAnnealingLR
Gradient Clipping: 1.0
Loss Function: Quantile Loss (Pinball Loss)
Validation Split: 20%
```

### Data Augmentation
- **Sliding Window**: 50% overlap for training samples
- **Multi-Scale**: Combined datasets with 15-min to yearly granularity
- **Teacher Forcing**: Used during training for stable learning

### Compute Infrastructure
- **Hardware**: Multi-GPU cloud setup (VNG Cloud)
- **Training Time**: ~20 epochs
- **Framework**: PyTorch 2.x with CUDA acceleration

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## 📈 Use Cases

This fine-tuned model excels in:

1. **⚡ Energy Forecasting**
   - Electricity demand prediction
   - Renewable energy output forecasting
   - Smart grid optimization

2. **🏥 Healthcare Analytics**
   - Patient admission forecasting
   - Resource allocation planning
   - Epidemic trend prediction

3. **🛒 Retail & E-commerce**
   - Sales forecasting across multiple stores
   - Inventory optimization
   - Demand planning

4. **🌍 Environmental Monitoring**
   - Climate pattern analysis
   - Air quality prediction
   - Weather forecasting

5. **💼 Business Intelligence**
   - Economic indicator forecasting
   - Financial time series analysis
   - Supply chain optimization

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## 🎓 Model Capabilities

### Quantile Forecasting
Unlike point forecasts, this model provides **full probabilistic predictions** with 9 quantiles:
- Enables risk-aware decision making
- Captures uncertainty in predictions
- Suitable for production deployment with confidence intervals

### Multi-Horizon Support
- **Short-term**: 1-24 steps ahead (minutes to hours)
- **Medium-term**: 25-96 steps ahead (days to weeks)
- **Long-term**: 96+ steps ahead (months to years)

### Robust to Data Characteristics
- ✅ Handles missing values (NaN)
- ✅ Adapts to different frequencies (15-min to yearly)
- ✅ Works with varying seasonality patterns
- ✅ Manages heterogeneous time series lengths

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## 🔬 Comparison with Base Model

| Aspect | Base TiRex | Fine-tuned TiRex |
|--------|-----------|------------------|
| Training Data | General time series corpus | FEV-Bench specialized domains |
| Zero-Shot | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Domain-Specific | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Energy Sector | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Healthcare | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |
| Retail | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ | ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ |

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## 📋 Limitations & Considerations

1. **Data Distribution**: While fine-tuned on diverse datasets, performance may vary on completely novel distributions
2. **Context Length**: Optimal performance with 512 timesteps of context; shorter context may reduce accuracy
3. **Frequency**: Best results with consistent time intervals; irregular sampling may require preprocessing
4. **Outliers**: Extreme outliers should be investigated and potentially preprocessed
5. **Computational**: Requires GPU for optimal inference speed on large batches

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## 📚 Citation

If you use this fine-tuned model in your research or production, please cite both TiRex and FEV-Bench:

```bibtex
@inproceedings{auer2025tirex,
  title={TiRex: Zero-Shot Forecasting Across Long and Short Horizons with Enhanced In-Context Learning},
  author={Andreas Auer and Patrick Podest and Daniel Klotz and Sebastian B{\"o}ck and G{\"u}nter Klambauer and Sepp Hochreiter},
  booktitle={The Thirty-Ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year={2025},
  url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23719}
}

@article{oliva2024fevbench,
  title={fev-bench: A Realistic Benchmark for Time Series Forecasting},
  author={Oliva, Juliette and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.26468},
  year={2024}
}
```

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## 🤝 Acknowledgments

- **Base Model**: [NX-AI](https://nx-ai.com) for the original TiRex architecture
- **Benchmark**: AutoGluon team for FEV-Bench datasets
- **Infrastructure**: VNG Cloud for multi-GPU training resources
- **Framework**: PyTorch and Hugging Face communities

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## 📄 License

This model inherits the [NXAI Community License](https://github.com/NX-AI/tirex/blob/main/LICENSE) from the base TiRex model.

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## 🔗 Related Resources

- 📦 **PyPI Package**: `pip install tirex-ts`
- 🏠 **GitHub Repository**: [NX-AI/tirex](https://github.com/NX-AI/tirex)
- 📖 **Documentation**: [nx-ai.github.io/tirex](https://nx-ai.github.io/tirex/)
- 🤗 **Base Model**: [NX-AI/TiRex](https://huggingface.co/NX-AI/TiRex)
- 📊 **FEV-Bench**: [autogluon/fev_datasets](https://huggingface.co/datasets/autogluon/fev_datasets)
- 🏆 **Leaderboard**: [ChronosZS](https://huggingface.co/spaces/autogluon/fev-leaderboard)

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## 🐛 Issues & Contributions

Found a bug or have suggestions? Please reach out or contribute:
- Issues: [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/NX-AI/tirex/issues)
- Email: contact@nx-ai.com

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