Foundation or Formula? A Simulation-Based Comparison of Google's TimesFM-3 and Classical Time-Series Models
基础模型还是经典模型?TimesFM-3 与经典时间序列模型的模拟比较
Time-series foundation models such as Google's TimesFM-3 forecast series they were never trained on, but whether they should replace classical methods such as ARIMA and exponential smoothing is hard to settle on public benchmarks, because few benchmark datasets are absent from every model's pre-training corpus. This exploratory study compares TimesFM-3 with classical methods on data generated from nine known processes, which the model cannot have seen. Across 7200 series and…