Time series data are ubiquitous in practical applications, where classification (TSC) and extrinsic regression (TSER) have emerged as essential tasks for obtaining value from temporal sequences. While the literature has seen significant progress through feature-based and deep learning models, existing methods often focus either on the quality of feature extraction or on the intrinsic predictive power of complex architectures applied to raw data.
arXiv:2607. 19234v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Time series classification is central to domains like medical signal analysis, industrial monitoring, and sensor-based activity recognition, where class information manifests as localized shapes, specific frequencies, temporal shifts, or complex cross-channel interactions.
By Joscha C\"uppers, Jilles Vreeken
arXiv:2606. 02384v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Progress in tabular machine learning has largely focused on increasingly sophisticated model architectures.
By Andrej Tschalzev, Nick Erickson, Yuyang Wang, Huzefa Rangwala, Stefan L\"udtke, Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Christian Bartelt
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:2608.31013v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing models that generalize effectively in low- to medium-data regimes remains a primary challenge in medical machine learning, particularly for p...
By J\'er\'emie Stym-Popper, Cl\'ement Rambour, Federica Granese, Nicolas Thome, Olivier Bernard
arXiv:2511. 02152v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Time series data is one of the most popular data modalities in critical domains such as industry and medicine.
By Bart{\l}omiej Ma{\l}kus, Szymon Bobek, Grzegorz J. Nalepa
arXiv:2609.13202v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feature engineering has long been a cornerstone of tabular machine learning. Tabular foundation models (TFMs) are pretrained on a wide range of tabular...
By Yifan WU, Pinjun Dong, Jiran Tao, Binyan Jiang
arXiv:2607. 15774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Explainable AI (XAI) for time series has seen significant algorithmic growth, but its utility in providing measurable performance gains for downstream tasks remains under-explored.
By Davide Italo Serramazza, Thach Le Nguyen, Georgiana Ifrim
SwitchPFN introduces a shared projection and regime codebook for time‑series classification with tabular foundation models, preserving local temporal transitions while ensuring consistent feature definitions across samples. The method outperforms existing representations, achieving the highest mean accuracy on evaluated benchmarks and improving the strongest baseline by 4.47% relative. Ablation, sensitivity, and limited‑data experiments confirm the benefits of the proposed representation design.
By Zhenyi Zhu, Jacqueline Pang, Peilin Shen, Tianyi Song, Tingwei Zhang, Keyi Hu, Kangjun Yin, Shiwei Pu, Yingbo Zhou, Chen Shao
arXiv:2605. 28418v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: With the rise of tabular foundation models alongside traditional models still performing well on many tasks, choosing the right model for a tabular dataset remains difficult.
By Markus Herre, Andrej Tschalzev, Sascha Marton, Christian Bartelt
The paper presents an iterative framework that uses large language models (LLMs) to automatically extract interpretable, schema‑bound categorical features from unstructured text for use in tabular prediction models. A generator LLM proposes semantic definitions, an extractor LLM materializes the features, and a downstream tabular model evaluates their predictive performance, with error‑driven natural‑language feedback guiding the search. Across three public datasets, the error‑driven loop speeds up feature discovery up to three times and the resulting features outperform any subset when combined with TF‑IDF and dense embeddings, while also providing instance‑level interpretability through SHAP importance rankings and a semantic audit trail.
By Merwan Barlier, Blaz Skrlj
arXiv:2607. 01548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large language models are increasingly used as open-ended search operators in evolutionary optimization.
By Ege Onur Taga, Yilin Zhuang, M. Emrullah Ildiz, Petros Mol, Abhimanyu Das, Karthik Duraisamy, Samet Oymak