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  • Add a LinearDetrend processor that fits a per-column linear trend using explicit time coordinates
  • Apply detrending when the fitted trend sufficiently reduces residual variation, and restore the trend to forecasts during inverse transformation
  • Use centered regression statistics to make the conditional decision without materializing a residual tensor:
    • Google's original implementation materialized the residual tensor
    • On an NVIDIA L4, LinearDetrend.fit with 100k rows and 100 columns takes 3.06 ms instead of 4.83 ms, with peak additional allocation reduced from 124 MiB to 68 MiB
  • Provide internal step coordinates for TimesFM3 context and query rows, and remove them from public predictions

Builds on #1074, partially addresses #1071

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Thanks. Is this PR dependent on previous PRs or could we rebase to main?

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Thanks. Is this PR dependent on previous PRs or could we rebase to main?

It does depends at least on #1018

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  • New Features
    • Added linear detrending to the TimesFM3 default workflow for both input features and targets.
    • Added a reusable linear detrending processor that can remove and restore trends, with optional threshold-based application.
    • TimesFM3 now accepts tensor or table inputs for training, forward evaluation, and prediction. Predictions omit synthetic time-step identifiers and include quantile columns named by their percentage values.

Walkthrough

TimesFM3 now accepts explicit tensor-or-table inputs and uses synthetic time-step IDs during fitting and prediction. A new LinearDetrend processor fits and removes coordinate-based trends, then restores them during inverse transformation. The default recipe applies it to features and targets.

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TimesFM3 model and preprocessing

Layer / File(s) Summary
Linear detrending processor
sdm/processing/numerical/linear_detrend.py, sdm/processing/numerical/__init__.py, sdm/processing/__init__.py, test/processing/numerical/test_linear_detrend.py, test/processing/test_contract.py
Adds and exports LinearDetrend. It fits per-output trends from ID coordinates, supports thresholding, preserves the input numerical dtype, and adds the fitted trend during inverse transformation. Tests cover trend fitting, threshold behavior, missing values, and processor contracts.
TimesFM3 input and prediction flow
sdm/models/timesfm3/model.py, sdm/models/timesfm3/recipe.py, test/models/timesfm3/*
TimesFM3 accepts explicit tensor-or-table inputs, adds synthetic IDs, and caches context schema and length during fitting. Prediction aligns query inputs to the cached schema and removes IDs from outputs. The default recipe applies LinearDetrend to features and targets. Tests check prediction repeatability and restored target trends across quantiles.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant TimesFM3
  participant ICLModel
  Caller->>TimesFM3: fit context and target
  TimesFM3->>ICLModel: fit with synthetic IDs
  Caller->>TimesFM3: predict query
  TimesFM3->>ICLModel: predict with schema-aligned query and IDs
  ICLModel-->>TimesFM3: return quantile predictions
  TimesFM3-->>Caller: return predictions without synthetic IDs
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Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to f147b

TimesFM3 predictions omit the model’s forecast values, potentially returning only zeros or a restored trend. This breaks the primary forecasting workflow and should be fixed before merging; mismatched-width detrending is an additional edge-case risk.

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83-84: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

_transform assumes one output column per fitted column.

_inverse_transform handles multiple outputs per fitted column through unflatten. _transform broadcasts self.intercept and self.slope with shape [..., 1, F] directly against table.numerical. If a table has a different column count than the fitted table, the broadcast fails or applies the trend silently to the wrong columns. Example: one fitted column broadcasts to every column. This path is reachable through the features recipe when query columns differ from context columns. TimesFM3 avoids this case because expand_query aligns the query schema. Other consumers of the public LinearDetrend do not have this guarantee. Validate table.numerical.size(-1) == self.slope.size(-1) and raise a clear error.

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295-295: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Generate exactly one column name per quantile.

If self.model.num_quantiles is four, range(10, 100, 5) generates 18 names per target, but the numerical block has four values per target. TableTensor rejects that width mismatch. Generate the quantile labels from range(self.model.num_quantiles) and retain the current labels when the count is nine. (raw.githubusercontent.com)

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Use named arguments in changed multi-line calls.

Pass the named base inputs as keywords in super().forward. Apply the same rule to the changed super().fit, super().predict, torch.arange, and torch.cat calls. Preserve forwarding of optional base arguments when changing the *args interface. As per path instructions, “keyword arguments in multi-line calls.”

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Comment on lines +291 to +310
out = TableTensor(
columns={
Stype.numerical: [
f"{name}__q{i}"
for name, i in product(columns, range(10, 100, 10))
f"{name}__q{int(100 * q)}"
for name, q in product(columns, self.model.quantiles)
]
},
numerical=torch.zeros(
(*size, len(columns) * 9),
(*size, len(columns) * len(self.model.quantiles)),
device=next(self.parameters()).device,
),
)
if x_query is None:
return out
context_length = (
x_context.size(-2)
if x_context is not None
else kwargs["_context_length"]
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

🔎 Supported by static analysis

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Invoke _TimesFM3 from TimesFM3._forward.

A fitted predict call reaches TimesFM3._forward with a nonempty query. That method creates a zero-valued output and never calls self.model. Public predictions therefore use placeholder zeros (subject to later inverse transforms) instead of forecasts from _TimesFM3.

Replace the zero-output block at sdm/models/timesfm3/model.py:291-302 with the _TimesFM3.forward call. Preserve the existing quantile columns and synthetic ID handling.

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Update TimesFM3._forward to call self.model.forward with the context and query
tensors so fitted predictions contain actual forecasts rather than zeros.
Preserve the existing quantile columns and _with_id_column synthetic ID
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