Merlion: A Machine Learning Framework for Time Series Intelligence
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·February 28, 2025ValentineC
Hopefully Salesforce Legal cleared everything surrounding this project's name and logo:
https://www.stb.gov.sg/about-stb/stb-brand-assets#94e2cb04e4...
That said, it also looks like this project has been around for 3+ years without issue.
xnx
Is this a competitor to Google's TimeFM? https://github.com/google-research/timesfm
macleginn
TimeFM is a single pre-trained decoder-only model for time-series forecasting. Merlion is a collection of models, both neural and more traditional, for a wide variety of time-series-related tasks. I can imagine TimeFM ending up in the set eventually, given right circumstances.
xnx
Thanks for the summary explainer. Very hard to keep up with the abundance of models if you don't work directly in that area.
jldugger
I do wish these were easier to integrate with prometheus or graphite. They both have rudimentary forecasting models but both leave much to be desired in parameterization.
esafak
Same here. The open source space here is neglected. I just heard about Grafana's augurs: https://github.com/grafana/augurs
theanonymousone
A warm welcome to the new buzzword expression "Time series intelligence", further muddying the water of AI terminology and confusing everyone.
janalsncm
Time series is an established term. For example predicting an earthquake from a sequence of events, or a stock price change, etc.
I never worked very seriously with time series problems, but I know enough from the title to know I can’t evaluate how good this thing is.
The "Comparison with Related Libraries" section is notably missing comparison against aeon and sktime, which also aim to be the kind of holistic time-series library like Merlion.