TSRouter: Dynamic Modality-Model Selection for Time Series Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.08940v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:09:05 GMT
• Title: TSRouter: Dynamic Modality-Model Selection for Time Series Reasoning
• Abstract summary: Time series reasoning is essential for real-world problem-solving.<n>Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can reason about time-series data.<n>We introduce TS, a graph-based dynamic routing framework.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Time series reasoning is essential for real-world problem-solving. While both Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can reason about time-series data, their capabilities are complementary: LLMs process time series as text sequences and thus preserve exact numerical understanding, but struggle with global patterns, whereas VLMs efficiently capture these patterns by visualizing time series but may lose fine-grained details. Moreover, models vary significantly in task-specific expertise and inference costs. Dynamically selecting the most suitable modality and model for each query is therefore crucial, yet challenging because it requires modeling the complex interactions among tasks, queries, modalities, and models, which carry rich contextual signals. To this end, we introduce TSRouter, a graph-based dynamic routing framework. TSRouter constructs a heterogeneous graph of task, query, modality, and model nodes to contextualize the interactions among query characteristics, modality attributes, and model capabilities. TSRouter formulates routing as a candidate scoring problem, where each modality-model pair is evaluated based on user-defined performance-cost preferences to select the optimal candidate. Comprehensive evaluations on 4 distinct time series reasoning tasks reveal that TSRouter substantially outperforms diverse baselines with 16\% to 46\% relative improvements. Furthermore, TSRouter demonstrates robust zero-shot plug-and-play generalization to unseen models and novel tasks and preserves high performance while reducing computational overhead through cost-aware optimization. Our code is available at https://github.com/tianyi-lab/TSRouter.

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