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---
license: mit
dataset_info:
  features:
  - name: question
    dtype: string
  - name: options
    sequence: string
  - name: answer
    dtype: string
  - name: question_type
    dtype: string
  - name: tid
    dtype: int64
  - name: difficulty
    dtype: string
  - name: format_hint
    dtype: string
  - name: relevant_concepts
    sequence: string
  - name: question_hint
    dtype: string
  - name: category
    dtype: string
  - name: subcategory
    dtype: string
  - name: id
    dtype: int64
  - name: ts1
    sequence: float64
  - name: ts2
    sequence: float64
  splits:
  - name: test
    num_bytes: 1623762
    num_examples: 763
  download_size: 1278082
  dataset_size: 1623762
configs:
- config_name: default
  data_files:
  - split: test
    path: data/test-*
task_categories:
- question-answering
language:
- en
tags:
- Time-series
- LLMs
- GPT
- Gemini
- Phi
pretty_name: timeseriesexam1
size_categories:
- n<1K
---

# Dataset Card for TimeSeriesExam-1

This dataset provides Question-Answer (QA) pairs for the paper [TimeSeriesExam: A Time Series Understanding Exam](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.14752). Example inference code can be found [here](https://github.com/moment-timeseries-foundation-model/TimeSeriesExam).

## 📖Introduction
Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated a remarkable ability to model time series data. These capabilities can be partly explained if LLMs understand basic time series concepts. However, our knowledge of what these models understand about time series data remains relatively limited. To address this gap, we introduce TimeSeriesExam, a configurable and scalable multiple-choice question exam designed to assess LLMs across five core time series understanding categories: pattern recognition, noise understanding, similarity analysis, anomaly detection, and causality analysis.

<div align="center">
<img width="40%" alt="Spider plot of performance of latest LLMs on the TimeSeriesExam" src="asset/spider.png">

Figure. 1: Accuracy of latest LLMs on the `TimeSeriesExam.` Closed-source LLMs outperform open-source ones in simple understanding tasks, but most models struggle with complex reasoning tasks.

</div>

Time series in the dataset are created from a combination of diverse baseline Time series objects. The baseline objects cover linear/non-linear signals and cyclic patterns. 

<div align="center">
<img width="40%" alt="time series curation pipeline" src="asset/Time_Series_Curation_Pipeline.png">

Figure. 2: The pipeline enables diversity by combining different components to create numerous synthetic time series with varying properties.

</div>

## Citation

If you find this work helpful, please consider citing our paper:

```
@inproceedings{caitimeseriesexam,
  title={TimeSeriesExam: A Time Series Understanding Exam},
  author={Cai, Yifu and Choudhry, Arjun and Goswami, Mononito and Dubrawski, Artur},
  booktitle={NeurIPS Workshop on Time Series in the Age of Large Models}
}
```

## Liscense

MIT License

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