tirex-multidomain-forecaster

TiRex Fine-tuned on FEV-Bench 🦖⚡

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

🤗 Base Model | 📄 Original Paper | 💻 GitHub | 📊 FEV-Bench

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🌟 Model Description

This is a fine-tuned version of the state-of-the-art 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

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

pip install tirex-ts torch

Basic Usage

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

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

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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:

@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 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 from the base TiRex model.

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🔗 Related Resources

• 📦 PyPI Package: pip install tirex-ts
• 🏠 GitHub Repository: NX-AI/tirex
• 📖 Documentation: nx-ai.github.io/tirex
• 🤗 Base Model: NX-AI/TiRex
• 📊 FEV-Bench: autogluon/fev_datasets
• 🏆 Leaderboard: ChronosZS

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🐛 Issues & Contributions

Found a bug or have suggestions? Please reach out or contribute:

• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Email: [email protected]

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Built with ❤️ using TiRex and PyTorch

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