Understanding Transformers for Time Series: Rank Structure, Flow-of-ranks, and Compressibility

Published in The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026

Recommended citation: Yu, A., Maddix, D.C., Han, B., Zhang, X., Ansari, A.F., Shchur, O., Faloutsos, C., Wilson, A.G., Mahoney, M.W., Wang, Y., (2026). "Understanding Transformers for Time Series: Rank Structure, Flow-of-ranks, and Compressibility. " The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). https://openreview.net/pdf?id=axR2KZwaD3

Our TSFM Compression code is on the amazon-science github.