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Mantis: Lightweight calibrated foundation model for user-friendly time series classification

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While foundation models have revolutionized various domains, their application to time series classification remains rather under-explored, with existing literature predominantly focused on forecasting. To bridge this gap, we introduce \textbf{Mantis}, a transformer-based foundation model pre-trained exclusively on synthetic data via self-supervised contrastive learning. We demonstrate that effective tokenization is critical to unlocking the full potential of transformers, proposing a novel token generator unit. Furthermore, we introduce an enhanced test-time methodology that bridges the performance gap between Mantis and strong specialized approaches by leveraging intermediate-layer representations, self-ensembling, and cross-model embedding fusion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Mantis establishes a new state-of-the-art, outperforming existing foundation models across four diverse dataset collections covering various application domains.

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Beyond IID: How General Are Tabular Foundation Models, Really?

cs.LG · 2026-06-29 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Tabular foundation models excel on tiny- to medium-sized IID data but are outperformed by traditional tree-based and deep learning models on non-IID, large, and high-dimensional datasets, based on evaluations across 11 models and 142 datasets in the new BeyondArena benchmark.

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