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9.07M params | 2K context | $0.00025 per forecast | Apache-2.0

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

Granite FlowState

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
2,048
Max context
8,192
Minimum history
n/a
Recommended history
n/a
Input step
n/a
Required target series
1
Temperature
Ignored
Top P
Ignored
Max output
1,024
Avg latency
n/a
Uptime
n/a
Plan limits
1,000 rpm free · 1,000,000 rpm with billing
Accelerator
T4
Regions
Virginia, US
License
Apache-2.0

Pricing

Per forecast
$0.00025

Performance

Average latency
n/a
Availability
n/a
Plan limits
1,000 rpm free · 1,000,000 rpm with billing
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