Kronos
GitHub Repo Coin flip · AAAI acceptance is real, but...Foundation model for financial K-lines that tokenizes price data into discrete symbols and runs a decoder-only Transformer on it. Accepted to AAAI 2026, which either means peer review works or nobody caught the obvious problem yet.
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Kronos has genuine novelty (hierarchical tokenization of OHLCV data, treating candlesticks as a language), peer review backing (AAAI 2026), and released models on HF. That's the science floor. The slop: (1) No ablation studies visible in README showing tokenizer is necessary vs. just feeding normalized floats to transformer; (2) Live demo shows BTC 24h forecast but zero error metrics, so we don't know if it actually works or just looks plausible; (3) 'Language of financial markets' framing is...
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