TabNSM is a scalable regression framework for large-scale, high-dimensional tabular data that builds on sparse-attention and mixer architectures. Its core component, the Adaptive Sparse Interaction Module (ASIM), combines foreground feature discovery, sparse local interaction encoding, and Feature-Token Mixing to achieve near-linear complexity. For regression, TabNSM adds a Multi-Stage Regression Head, GridLoss (an ordinal-aware soft-binning objective), and RISE (a difficulty-aware sampling strategy), achieving strong predictive performance and practical scalability across nine real-world benchmarks, especially on high-dimensional and heterogeneous datasets.
arXiv:2607. 10077v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular learning is still dominated by gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs), while recent deep learning approaches have become increasingly competitive.
Inherently interpretable classifiers for tabular data typically rely on sparse features, rules, or patterns that users can inspect directly. The marginal feature-screening step common to these methods can discard variables whose predictive value emerges only through joint configurations with other variables.
LoopICL is a transformer architecture that loops a single block to address tabular tasks. It separates parameter count from computational depth by using a cell stream for per‑cell features and a row stream for in‑context examples, refined via within‑column and cross‑column attention. During pre‑training, varying loop counts and a learned exit‑gate allow the model to adjust inference depth at test time, achieving competitive performance with TabICLv2 while using about 90% fewer parameters.
arXiv:2609.36337v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong performance by conditioning on labelled examples in context, but softmax attention limits their use on large d...
arXiv:2607. 07060v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Inherently interpretable classifiers for tabular data typically rely on sparse features, rules, or patterns that users can inspect directly.
The paper introduces In-Table Prediction (ITB), a self‑supervised task where deep neural networks learn to predict any column in a table from the remaining columns. It proposes a novel neural layer to handle missing continuous values, generates synthetic datasets with controlled column relationships, and evaluates three architectures—MLP, ResNet, and Transformer—showing that attention‑based Transformers perform best when ample training data and large embeddings are used. The study is limited to synthetic, small‑column tables and is presented as an initial investigation rather than a comprehensive real‑world analysis.
arXiv:2606. 07345v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models, exemplified by TabPFN, perform prediction via in-context learning, inferring test labels directly from labeled training examples.
arXiv:2605. 24417v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised classification on tabular data remains a central machine learning task, but its dependence on large labeled datasets limits its applicability in data-scarce settings.
arXiv:2608. 09162v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular data presents unique challenges for deep learning due to its heterogeneous nature, where numeric features exhibit diverse distributions, scales, and statistical properties.
arXiv:2511. 15941v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Tabular data underpins decisions across science, industry, and public services.
TabICLv2 is a new state‑of‑the‑art tabular foundation model that outperforms existing methods on regression and classification tasks. It relies on a synthetic data generation engine for diverse pretraining, architectural innovations such as a scalable softmax attention, and optimized training protocols that replace AdamW with the Muon optimizer. On the TabArena and TALENT benchmarks, TabICLv2 surpasses the current best model, RealTabPFN‑2.5, without any tuning, while also being faster and capable of handling million‑scale datasets with limited GPU memory.
arXiv:2605. 31272v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As predictive models are increasingly deployed in high-stakes settings such as credit approval, there is a growing need for post-hoc methods that provide recourse to affected individuals.