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Rationales Before Results: Teaching Multimodal LLMs to Actually Reason About Time Series

Dashboard work has a familiar little ritual. Someone opens a chart, zooms into the last few points, notices a dip, a rebound, or a suspiciously clean trend line, and then says something that sounds analytical: “Looks like it will continue.” Sometimes that is wisdom. Sometimes it is just a human staring confidently at a squiggle. ...

January 7, 2026 · 15 min · Zelina