TimeCraft
Summary
TimeCraft is Microsoft’s open-source time-series generation framework. It packages cross-domain generation, text-controlled generation, target-aware generation, causal generation, online TSFM augmentation, and irregular continuous-time generation under one repository.
Official Artifacts
- Repository: https://github.com/microsoft/TimeCraft
- Microsoft Research TimeCraft blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/timecraft-a-universal-framework-for-time-series-generation/
- Microsoft Research TimeDP blog: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/articles/timedp-creating-cross-domain-synthetic-time-series-data/
Lineage
- TimeDP: prototype-conditioned cross-domain generation.
- BRIDGE: text-controlled generation.
- TarDiff: target-aware EHR generation.
- CaTSG: causal, interventional, and counterfactual generation.
- OATS: online data augmentation for TSFMs.
- Diff-MN: irregular-to-continuous generation.
- MG-TSD: multi-granularity diffusion for probabilistic forecasting, included as a general time-series diffusion technique rather than a synthetic-data branch.
- DiGA and MarS: financial-market simulation branches.
Role In The Wiki
TimeCraft is the current Microsoft-lab anchor for practical time-series generation. It should be read as a framework and paper family, with source-specific claims routed to the individual papers.