Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
Morgan Stanley
time series

Lag-Llama

Early time-series foundation model (USA / Canada affiliations); worse than Seasonal Naive on GIFT-Eval MASE with test leakage flagged.

Figure from the Lag-Llama paper: Forecasting examples on the Electricity Hourly dataset.
Levelmodel
Classtime series
Parameters2.45M
Contextnot in the notes
Released12 Oct 2023
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onCPU server
Statusactive

Benchmark Results

independent
GIFT-Evaltime series
pretrained, test leakage Yesindependentsaw test data
1.228
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
0.88
00.51

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

rank 136 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).

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
Morgan Stanley, ServiceNow (ServiceNow Research, Montreal), Universite de Montreal, Mila
Family
not in the notes
Released
12 Oct 2023 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
7 Feb 2024
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
dense transformer Decoder-only transformer using lags as covariates; univariate probabilistic
Total parameters
2.45M sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
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
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
CPU server
Footprint
not in the notes
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.

Lineage

The notes record no lineage for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. Lag-Llama: Towards Foundation Models for Probabilistic Time Series Forecasting arxiv.org https://arxiv.org/html/2310.08278v3
  2. GIFT Eval - a Hugging Face Space by Salesforce huggingface.co https://huggingface.co/spaces/Salesforce/GIFT-Eval
  3. huggingface.co/api/models/time-series-foundation-models/Lag-... https://huggingface.co/api/models/time-series-foundation-models/Lag-Llama

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Lag-Llama", https://aurion.semai.id/models/morgan-stanley-lag-llama/, records of October 2026.