Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam indication set determination. A method by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a configuration of multiple beam indication sets. The method includes receiving an indication of parameters and, for each parameter, an associated subset of the multiple beam indication sets. The method includes determining a subset of the multiple configured beam indication sets based on the one or more parameters. The beam indications may be transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for downlink transmissions and/or spatial relations for uplink transmissions. The base station (BS) can configure multiple beam indications and sets and signal to the UE which sets are configured or active during which intervals. The BS may signal the association based on a predetermined UE trace.