shiyu-coder/Kronos
Kronos: A Foundation Model for the Language of Financial Markets
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Where it stands
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Ranks #2 among Backend repositories ranked this week, and #3 over the last 30 days; #35 of 182 repositories with measured growth this week (top 19%).
This week's +2,336 stars is ahead of its 30-day pace of about +1,563 per week.
The project lists 18 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #5 in the weekly ranking the week of Apr 12, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a foundation model specialized for financial market candlestick (K-line) data forecasting using hierarchical tokenization and autoregressive Transformers.
- Enables accurate modeling of noisy, multi-dimensional financial time series by combining a novel tokenizer with large-scale pretraining on diverse global exchange data.
- Use for forecasting short-term price movements and volumes in cryptocurrency markets like BTC/USDT with pre-trained Kronos models.
- Use for fine-tuning on proprietary stock market data to develop customized quantitative trading signals and backtest strategies.
- Use for batch prediction of multiple financial assets simultaneously leveraging GPU parallelism for efficient large-scale forecasting.
Should you depend on it?
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License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
Watch-outs
- No commits in the last six months (last push Apr 2026).
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
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From the README
Kronos is the first open-source foundation model for financial candlesticks (K-lines), trained on data from over 45 global exchanges.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+10,340 stars over 87 days across 29 snapshot days; best day +683 on Oct 21.
Forks
7.8K+1.7K
Open issues
297+39
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