@article{understandingtransformersfortimeseriesra, title = {Understanding Transformers for Time Series: Rank Structure, Flow-of-ranks, and Compressibility}, author = {Annan Yu and Danielle C. Maddix and Boran Han and Xiyuan Zhang and Abdul Fatir Ansari and Oleksandr Shchur and Christos Faloutsos and Andrew Gordon Wilson and Michael W. Mahoney and Yuyang Wang}, year = {2025}, eprint = {2510.03358}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03358}, }