CodeTS: Verifiable Text-to-Time Series Generation via Executable Code

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2609.15393v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:20:49 GMT
• Title: CodeTS: Verifiable Text-to-Time Series Generation via Executable Code
• Abstract summary: We propose CodeTS, a verifiable framework that uses code as an intermediate generation interface.<n>CodeTS first maps textual temporal descriptions into an explicit code space, where executable code specifies how textual requirements shape target temporal patterns.<n>To learn this code generation process reliably without real code annotations, CodeTS constructs aligned Text-Code-TS triplets from structured temporal attributes.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Text-to-Time Series Generation (Text-to-TS) provides a promising paradigm for synthesizing time series from natural language, enabling scenario-specific generation when real observations are scarce or costly to acquire. However, existing methods typically lack an explicit mechanism for deriving generation logic from textual descriptions to guide time series synthesis. In this paper, we propose CodeTS, a verifiable framework that uses code as an intermediate generation interface, reformulating Text-to-TS generation as a Text-to-Code-to-TS process. CodeTS first maps textual temporal descriptions into an explicit code space, where executable code specifies how textual requirements shape target temporal patterns, and then obtains the time series through code execution. To learn this code generation process reliably without real code annotations, CodeTS constructs aligned Text-Code-TS triplets from structured temporal attributes for supervised initialization. More importantly, we further design multi-stage execution-based rewards that verify format validity, code executability, and time series quality, enabling real Text-TS pairs to provide training signals for Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR). Extensive experiments on eight benchmarks across short, medium, and long generation lengths demonstrate that CodeTS provides a strong zero-shot solution for Text-to-TS generation, outperforming LLM-based baselines and achieving better averaged results than supervised generative baselines trained on the target datasets.

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