WaveTLM: Reliable Time-Series Language Modeling through Task Compilation

2026-09-16

AI Summary

本文通过引入WaveTLM模型解决时间序列语言模型生成内容不可靠的问题，该模型将用户请求编译为具体任务状态并执行，确保输出的可靠性。

Abstract

Time-series language models provide a shared natural-language interface across temporal tasks, but plausible text does not guarantee reliable task outputs. Responses may appear reasonable while hallucinating the required object: numerical sequences can violate shape, scale, channel order, or temporal alignment, and textual decisions can fall outside the legal label space. We formulate reliable time-series language modeling, separating task-object reliability from predictive quality. We introduce ExecTS-QA, a contract-grounded benchmark spanning forecasting, imputation, classification, anomaly detection, and waveform analysis. We further propose WaveTLM, a unified compiler-executor model whose task compiler transforms user requests, visible arguments, and wave-grounded evidence into typed task states, while task-native executors construct numerical tensors, legal decisions, or structured records. On ExecTS-QA, a single WaveTLM checkpoint achieves 99.40% contract-valid coverage, compared with 37.83% for the strongest evaluated string-first baseline, while retaining balanced predictive performance across all five task families. Evaluations on SciTS, TSQA, IRTS-ToolBench, and ARFBench provide additional evidence of transfer. The code, construction scripts, and ExecTS-QA dataset will be publicly released upon publication. These results show that task compilation can convert plausible language generation into reliable time-series outputs.

Problem

• time-series language models
• reliable task outputs
• numerical sequences
• temporal alignment
• legal label space

Innovation

• WaveTLM
• Task Compilation
• Reliable Time-Series Outputs
• ExecTS-QA