EXAONE Finance 1.0

"An Attention-free Time Series Foundation Model for Financial Time Series." LG AI Research's EXAONE Forecast for Finance is a time-series foundation model built for financial forecasting rather than adapted from general-domain TSFMs: it drops the self-attention backbone, whose cost grows quadratically with sequence length and variate count, for causal 1D convolutions with group-aware pooling, and pretrains on a synthetic financial corpus. The report claims the top zero-shot result on GIFT-eval. No weights are released; the first version posted August 4, 2026 and a revision on September 7. Filed late.