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TimeNet: Open-source data infrastructure for Temporal Foundation Models

Hi HN,Current frontier LLMs show incredible results across text, video, and audio, but don't do as well with real-world scenarios like production lines, trading, drilling operations, or demand supply forecasting. They are not capable of comprehending this data, especially given a limited context.Models exist that are able to understand temporal information natively—Temporal Foundation Models (TFMs). However, there is a data problem: unlike all the public information that frontier models train on, temporal information is still scattered across organizations without a unified way to access it.That’s why we built TimeNet. It's like ImageNet for temporal data:- One uniform data layer for either our repository or your own data- Define tasks on top temporal data around classification, question answering, scalar prediction, temporal localization, forecasting, generation, editing, and correspondence (more to come)- Simple and performant API to integrate into ML frameworks.- First experimental results: training on multiple temporal datasets increased F1 performance on each dataset respectively by an average of 14% and 22% for OpenTSLM and SLIP respectively.- Install via ‘uv add timenet’TimeNet is the result of a growing open and global collaboration between researchers from Aionic Labs, Stanford, ETH Zurich, UNSW Sydney, Sun Yat-sen University, Griffith University, Google, UCLA, TimeCopilot, Dartmouth, Harvard, Cambridge, Eindhoven University of Technology and KAIST.Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.04407Quickstart: https://docs.timenet.ai/get-started.htmlTimeNet Registry: https://registry.timenet.ai/There is currently an online hackathon ongoing on TimeNet (https://challenge.timenet.ai/) with up to $50k in cloud credit prizes, this should fuel your first model training. We would love to see you build on top of it and to hear your thoughts!

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Amazing!
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ETH cooking again!
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TimeNet already helped us out a lot accelerating training the next version(s) of OpenTSLM :)
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Nice to see work from ETH
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Let’s go!
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I've long said that "time is the neglected dimension", congratulations.