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[ENH] Verify TinyTimeMixerForecaster exogenous and few-shot capability

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#8,522 opened on Jul 11, 2025

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The original paper describes exogenous support and few-shot capability, but the current sktime implementation seems not to support it. Paper: 📄 TinyTimeMixer Paper Reference: Tiny Time Mixers(TTMs): Powerful Zero/Few-Shot Forecasting Models by IBM Code: 🛠️ sktime ttm.py implementation

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Review the TinyTimeMixer paper and the current sktime implementation to identify missing exogenous and few shot capabilities. Then propose and implement the necessary changes.
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