TabBench-Bio is a living, interactive benchmark that evaluates machine learning models on 43 high‑dimensional biomedical tables, covering multiple domains. Using a shared cross‑validation protocol, the benchmark compares classical estimators, neural networks, and tabular foundation models across 28 feature‑by‑sample operating points, with RealTabPFN v2.5 achieving the highest performance at the reference cell of 10,000 features and 100 training samples. The benchmark provides reproducible results, fold‑level predictions, and invites community contributions to expand its dataset collection.
By Jules Kreuer, Sofiane Ouaari, Julia Hellmig, Julius Braitinger, Nico Pfeifer
arXiv:2608. 02412v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become the default tool for a remarkable range of tasks, yet they have had conspicuously little success at one of the most common machine learning workloads: predictive analytics over tabular data.
By Marta Garnelo, Wojciech M. Czarnecki
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.
By Jingang Qu, David Holzm\"uller, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Marine Le Morvan
The paper investigates whether training classical machine learning models remains worthwhile when large language models (LLMs) can label tabular data without training. By defining a labeled‑data crossover point (N*) where a trained classical model surpasses a frozen LLM’s flat error, the authors analyze 126 student evaluations of GPT models across 18 datasets and compare them to power‑law learning curves of six classical model families. Results show that in 86% of cases a classical model outperforms the LLM with no more labeled data than already available, and the crossover occurs at a median of about 6% of the training set, suggesting that collecting a few hundred labels and training a gradient‑boosted model is typically advantageous.
By Kaihua Ding
arXiv:2607. 14984v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Per-subgroup fairness audits of medical image classifiers face a sample-size problem: minority subgroups in held-out test sets have so few samples that the resulting confidence intervals on per-subgroup performance are wider than the bias the audit is meant to detect.
By Mahmoud Ibrahim, Bart Elen, Chang Sun, Gokhan Ertaylan, Michel Dumontier
arXiv:2610.27569v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Tabular foundation models (TFMs) pretrain a transformer on large-scale synthetic priors so that a single forward pass yields zero-shot tabular predicti...
By Zhixiong Cheng, Shiyuan Han, Jingjing Suo, Zhengli Wang