arXiv Machine Learning

Towards Evaluating Data Priors for Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 29241v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Data-generating priors are a central component of tabular foundation models because they define the task distribution used during pretraining.

arXiv AI
Jun 9

When Tabular Foundation Models Meet Strategic Tabular Data: A Prior Alignment Approach

arXiv:2605. 19662v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Tabular foundation models based on pretrained prior-data fitted networks~(PFNs) have shown strong generalization on diverse tabular tasks, but they are typically designed for \emph{non-strategic} settings where data distributions are independent of deployed classifiers.

By Xinpeng Lv, Yunxin Mao, Renzhe Xu, Chunyuan Zheng, Yikai Chen, Haoxuan Li, Jinxuan Yang, Kun Kuang, Yuanlong Chen, Mingyang Geng, Wanrong Huang, Shixuan Liu, Shaowu Yang, Wenjing Yang, Zhouchen Lin, Haotian Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Beyond IID: How General Are Tabular Foundation Models, Really?

arXiv:2606. 30410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for predictive machine learning on tabular data have recently gained significant traction in academia and industry.

By Lennart Purucker, Andrej Tschalzev, Nick Erickson, Gioia Blayer, David Holzm\"uller, Alan Arazi, Alexander Pfefferle, Mustafa Tajjar, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Frank Hutter
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

When Tabular Foundation Models Transfer Across Modalities: A Systematic Evaluation Across 95 Datasets, 7 Modalities, and Two Regimes

arXiv:2606. 02106v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present a single classification pipeline that combines an Equiangular Tight Frame (ETF) preprocessing stage with a tabular foundation model for in-context inference, applied identically across modalities once data is mapped to fixed vector representations.

By Julien Lafrance