Nexus : An Agentic Framework for Time Series Forecasting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.14389v1
• Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 05:12:13 GMT
• Title: Nexus : An Agentic Framework for Time Series Forecasting
• Abstract summary: Time series forecasting requires reasoning with unstructured contextual data such as news or events.<n>We introduce Nexus, a multi-agent forecasting framework that decomposes prediction into specialized stages.<n>We show that current-generation LLMs possess substantially stronger intrinsic forecasting ability than previously recognized.
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• Abstract: Time series forecasting is not just numerical extrapolation, but often requires reasoning with unstructured contextual data such as news or events. While specialized Time Series Foundation Models (TSFMs) excel at forecasting based on numerical patterns, they remain unaware to real-world textual signals. Conversely, while LLMs are emerging as zero-shot forecasters, their performance remains uneven across domains and contextual grounding. To bridge this gap, we introduce Nexus, a multi-agent forecasting framework that decomposes prediction into specialized stages: isolating macro-level and micro-level temporal fluctuations, and integrating contextual information when available before synthesizing a final forecast. This decomposition enables Nexus to adapt from seasonal signals to volatile, event-driven information without relying on external statistical anchors or monolithic prompting. We show that current-generation LLMs possess substantially stronger intrinsic forecasting ability than previously recognized, depending critically on how numerical and contextual reasoning are organized. Evaluated on data strictly succeeding LLM knowledge cutoffs spanning Zillow real estate metrics and volatile stock market equities, Nexus consistently matches or outperforms state-of-the-art TSFMs and strong LLM baselines. Beyond numerical accuracy, Nexus produces high-quality reasoning traces that explicitly show the fundamental drivers behind each forecast. Our results establish that real-world forecasting is an agentic reasoning problem extending well beyond only sequence modeling.

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