Project AURIONAI Use-Cases Research & Innovation
time seriesfamily

Kronos

Family of open foundation models for financial candlestick (K-line) data, trained on data from over 45 exchanges, for forecasting price series. Paper by Shi et al. (2025).

Diagram of Kronos with K-line tokenization and autoregressive pretraining.
Levelfamily
Classtime series
Parametersnot in the notes
Contextnot in the notes
Released2 Aug 2025
Opennessopen weights permissive
Runs onnot in the notes
Statusactive

Lineage

Kronos-mini belongs to this familytime series1 Jul 20254.1M
Kronos-base belongs to this familytime series30 Jun 2025102.3M
Kronos-small belongs to this familytime series30 Jun 202524.7M
Where this comes from
Parent and child relations from model cards, Hugging Face base_model fields and the genealogy tables of the research notes. Confidence and evidence are the notes' own.

R&D Topics

Identity

Developer
not in the notes
Family
not in the notes
Released
2 Aug 2025 sourcesannouncement page
Weights published
–
Record checked
12 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
autoregressive Decoder-only transformer over tokenised K-line (candlestick) sequences
Total parameters
– sources
Active parameters
–
Checkpoint parameters
–
Note
mini 4.1M, small 24.7M, base 102.3M; large 499.2M not publicly available (model card).
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
MIT License sources
Access routes
open weights download
Where this comes from
The licence file governs over registry tags and aggregator labels.

Deployment

Runs on
not in the notes
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.

Benchmark Results

The notes record no benchmark result for this model.

Industry Use Cases

No industry use case links this model.

Sources

  1. arxiv.org/abs/2508.02739 https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02739
  2. huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-base https://huggingface.co/NeoQuasar/Kronos-base
  3. github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos https://github.com/shiyu-coder/Kronos
  4. huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=time-series-forecasti... https://huggingface.co/api/models?pipeline_tag=time-series-forecasting&sort=downloads&limit=50

To cite this page: Project AURION, AI Use-Cases Research & Innovation, "Kronos", https://aurion.semai.id/models/neoquasar-kronos/, records of October 2026.