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FlowState

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ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-flowstate-r1

9.07M params | 512 context | $0.5000 input | $1.50 output

FlowState is IBM's sampling-rate-invariant TSFM for zero-shot forecasting. Its SSM encoder and functional basis decoder let it adapt context length, target length, and sampling rate at inference time instead of being tied to a single fixed timescale. It is the right IBM model when your data arrives at inconsistent cadences or when you need one model to generalize across multiple temporal resolutions.

Model Classification

Family

FlowState / Granite TimeSeries

Type

time series foundation model

Pretrained time-series model exposed on TSFM.ai for zero-shot or few-shot forecasting workloads.

Training Data

Subsets of Gift-Eval Pretrain and the Chronos pretraining corpus, with the official card stating that the used data does not overlap Gift-Eval evaluation splits.

Recommended For

  • Forecasting across inconsistent sampling rates or timescales
  • One-model deployments spanning multiple temporal cadences

Strengths

  • Designed to generalize across varying resolutions
  • Flexible context and horizon behavior at inference time

Limitations

  • Smaller public ecosystem than the biggest mainstream TSFM families
  • Less useful if all of your series already live at one fixed cadence

Capabilities

forecastingquantile-forecastingtimescale-invariantzero-shot

Tags

ibmflowstatetimescale-invariantprobabilistic

Specifications

Parameters
9.07M
Architecture
state space encoder with functional basis decoder
Context length
512
Max output
1,024
Avg latency
n/a
Uptime
n/a
Rate limit
n/a
Accelerator
NVIDIA GPU
Regions
Virginia, US
License
n/a

Pricing

Input / 1M tokens
$0.5000
Output / 1M tokens
$1.50

Performance

Average latency
n/a
Availability
n/a
Rate limit
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