Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
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time series

Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2

IBM tiny forecasting model for CPU-only machines; vendor claims to beat larger models, but GIFT-Eval ranks TTM-R2 140 of 143 with test leakage flagged.

Chart of model size against CPU inference time and forecast accuracy for TTM and other forecasting models, from the model card.
Levelmodel
Classtime series
Parameters805K
Contextnot in the notes
Released2024
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onCPU server, laptop
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

independent
GIFT-Evaltime series
pretrained, test leakage Yesindependentsaw test data
1.02
00.71.4

Score in MASE (geo-mean, normalised to Seasonal Naive). Lower is better.

Leaderboard rebuilt from the published raw results, 143 entries covering all 97 configurations9 Oct 2026 huggingface.co
pretrained, test leakage Yes; rank is average CRPS rankindependentsaw test data
0.873
00.51

Score in CRPS (geo-mean, normalised to Seasonal Naive). Lower is better.

rank 140 of 143, Leaderboard rebuilt from the published raw results, 143 entries covering all 97 configurations9 Oct 2026 huggingface.co
Where this comes from
Every score names who ran it: vendor-reported, maintainer-run or independent. A rank is shown with the population it was ranked in (gap rule 3).

Lineage

successor
Granite TTM-R1 to Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2: successor, high confidenceGranite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2 to Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2.1: successor, high confidenceGranite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2.1 to Granite TimeSeries TTM r3: successor, medium confidenceGranite TTM-R1Granite TTM-R1IBMGranite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM…IBM, 2024Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2.1Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM…IBMGranite TimeSeries TTM r3Granite TimeSeries TTM r3IBM, May 2026
IBMGranite TTM-R1 is the parent (successor)high confidencemodel card
IBMGranite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2.1 is a child (successor)high confidencemodel card
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. The tree shows two generations each way, 4 models. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

Industry Use Cases

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
IBM
Family
not in the notes
Released
2024 sourcesnotesunverified
Weights published
–
Record checked
10 Oct 2026
Where this comes from
Developer and dates from the research notes. Release date is the vendor's public announcement; weights date is when open weights were published.

Architecture and Size

Architecture
other TinyTimeMixer (MLP-mixer family)
Total parameters
805K sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
about 805k to 1M+
Context length
not in the notes
Input
time series
Output
time series
Where this comes from
Parameter counts as the developer states them. Where the checkpoint holds a different total, both are shown (register A16).

Openness and Access

Openness
open weights permissive
Licence
Apache License 2.0 sources
Access routes
open weights download, API
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
CPU server, laptop
Footprint
CPU-only machines and laptops; watsonx.ai forecast API.
Runtimes
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Deployment tiers and runtimes as named in the notes. Footprint is the notes' figure, not a measurement by AURION.

Indonesia

Indonesian support
not stated
Regional languages
not in the notes
Jakarta hosting
unknown
Languages
not in the notes
Where this comes from
Indonesia fields are carried on every model; unknown is an allowed value.

Sources

  1. ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-ttm-r2 , Hugging Face huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/ibm-granite/granite-timeseries-ttm-r2
  2. GIFT Eval - a Hugging Face Space by Salesforce huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/GIFT-Eval
  3. Granite Time Series | IBM Granite ibm.com https://www.ibm.com/ae-ar/granite/docs/models/time-series/

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Granite TinyTimeMixer (TTM) r2", https://aurion.semai.id/models/ibm-granite-ttm-r2/, records of October 2026.