Time Series as Language: A Universal Tokenizer for General-Purpose Time Series Foundation Models
arXiv:2606.09861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While Next-Token Prediction (NTP) has unified LLM pretraining, its adaptation to unbounded, continuous time series (TS) remains open. To bridge the gap, we introduce UniTok, a universal tokenizer that transforms TS into discrete tokens, and…
