Mantis

Summary

Mantis is a lightweight time-series classification foundation-model lineage. In this wiki it covers the original Mantis-8M contrastive model, MantisPlus and MantisV2 synthetic-data variants, and UTICA’s self-distillation branch on the Mantis-style backbone.

Lineage

  • Mantis introduces Mantis-8M, a calibrated classification-oriented encoder with a time-series token generator, ViT-style transformer, frozen-feature and fine-tuning evaluations, and multivariate adapters.
  • MantisV2 extends the line with synthetic CauKer-style pretraining, a refined smaller encoder, intermediate-layer feature choices, token aggregation, self-ensembling, and feature fusion.
  • UTICA keeps the Mantis tokenizer/backbone but changes the pretraining objective to DINO/iBOT-style self-distillation with masked patch prediction and KoLeo regularization.

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Role In The Wiki

Mantis is the central classification lineage for comparing contrastive pretraining, synthetic-data pretraining, test-time representation choices, and non-contrastive self-distillation in time-series classification.