arXiv Machine Learning

Curriculum Matters: Data-Efficient Relational PFN Pretraining with Synthetic Data

arXiv:2607. 29120v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs) such as RDB-PFN approximate Bayesian inference over multi-table relational databases by pretraining on millions of synthetic tasks.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Advancing Open and Reproducible Relational Learning: RelArena-$\alpha$, TabPFN-Rel and RPI

arXiv:2608. 16319v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This first release of Prior Labs in relational learning shows our continued commitment to open science.

By Adrian Hayler, Klemens Fl\"oge, Alan Arazi, Rishabh Ranjan, Jure Leskovec, Felix Birkel, Brendan Roof, Anurag Garg, Kristina Collins, Lydia Sidhoum, Jonas K\"ubler, Siyuan Guo, Oscar Key, Jan Hendrik Metzen, Rylee Grace, David Salinas, Arthur Cahu, Simon Bing, Benjamin J\"ager, Tuana \c{C}elik, Mihir Manium, Vitor Monteiro, Jake Robertson, Jerry Chen, Eliott Kalfon, Tom\'as Pereda, Lilly Wehrhahn, Dominik Safaric, Tobias Schroeder, Georg Grab, Diana Kriuchkova, Clara Cornu, Philipp Singer, Nick Erickson, Vahid Balazadeh, Marie Salmon, Simone Alessi, K\"ur\c{s}at Kaya, Philipp Jund, L\'eo Grinsztajn, Yann LeCun, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Madelon Hulsebos, Lennart Purucker, Sauraj Gambhir, Frank Hutter, Noah Hollmann
arXiv Machine Learning
2d ago

Synthesis Without Training: An Inference-Only Pipeline for Tabular, Temporal, and Relational Synthetic Data

GENSCRIPT is an inference‑only pipeline that generates synthetic data without training a generative model. It creates a deterministic statistical profile of the source data, uses a language model to infer field semantics and cross‑column constraints, and then compiles these into an executable sampler that works for single‑table, temporal, and relational data. The method builds generators in minutes, samples large datasets quickly, and achieves fidelity comparable to leading methods while preserving key data relationships such as 1‑to‑1 mappings and primary‑foreign key constraints.

By Zilong Zhao, Abdul Raheem, Jiayu Li, Sohei Arisaka, Darius Lim Hong Yi, Milad Abdollahzadeh, Uzair Javaid, Biplab Sikdar
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 11

Reification as a Transferable Vocabulary: Zero-Shot Link Prediction with Vanilla GNNs

The paper introduces a method that transforms knowledge graph facts into a fixed vocabulary representation, where each fact becomes a node linked to its subject, object, and relation type via six meta-relations. Using this representation, standard GNNs (e.g., GAT, GINE, GraphSAGE, R-GCN) trained on a single small graph can achieve zero‑shot link prediction on 40 inductive benchmarks, matching the performance of specialized foundation models like ULTRA. The approach also generalizes to relational databases, enabling foreign‑key prediction without cell values or schema text, and the authors provide code, checkpoints, and evaluation tools for all benchmarks.

By Camille Pradel
arXiv AI
Jun 26

NebulaExp-8B: An Empirical Post-Training Pipeline via Full-Scale Ablation Research

arXiv:2606. 26671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-training alignment determines the reasoning and human preference following capabilities of large language models, yet most existing works withhold detailed data construction, filtering rules and training recipes, which hinders community reproducibility and lightweight model optimization.

By Qiaobo Hao, Yangqian Wu, Shunyi Wang, Zhongjian Zhang, Ziqun Li, Yayin He, Muqing Li, Chen Zhong
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Generalization Can Emerge in Tabular Foundation Models From a Single Table

The paper demonstrates that a tabular foundation model can achieve strong generalization using only a single real table for self‑supervised pre‑training, challenging the belief that large synthetic or real datasets are necessary. By systematically pre‑training and evaluating across diverse benchmarks, the authors show that the number and quality of tasks that can be derived from a dataset are critical for downstream performance. This finding suggests that carefully constructed task sets from limited data can enable effective transfer learning in tabular models.

By Junwei Ma, Nour Shaheen, Alex Labach, Amine Mhedhbi, Frank Hutter, Anthony L. Caterini, Valentin Thomas