Sustainability of TSFM Deployment and Pretraining: From Carbon Footprint Analysis to Mitigation via Pruning

Paper recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-23 in cs.LG. Abstract reproduced from arXiv; link to the original below.

Published 2026-10-23 on arXiv · recorded by Signals 4 on 2026-10-26

Category: cs.LG · 机器学习 · first seen 2026-10-26

Abstract

Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) offer strong zero-shot forecasting capabilities, but their high pretraining cost raises a practical sustainability question: does this upfront investment pay off over a full deployment lifecycle, compared to supervised standalone models that must be periodically retrained? We model the cumulative carbon cost of different approaches across a realistic industria

Read on arXiv →