arXiv:2606. 03040v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Relational databases underpin modern enterprise, scientific, and healthcare systems, yet predictive machine learning on such data remains challenging due to their multi-table, heterogeneous, and temporal structure.
By Phillip Jiang
The paper investigates whether prior‑data‑fitted networks (PFNs) can be extended to graph‑based relational models. The authors pretrain a message‑passing foundation model, Griffin, on large synthetic relational databases and evaluate its frozen encoder on 16 real‑world relational classification tasks. A curriculum that starts with schema‑guided synthetic data and then uses schema‑agnostic data yields the best in‑context performance, outperforming real‑data‑only pretraining and other mixtures.
By Mohammad Sadeq Abolhasani, Viswanath Ganapathy
MetaRTL is a two-stage framework for relational table learning that first generates lightweight pre-trained table embeddings and then applies non‑parametric message passing to extract meta‑path features. These features are aggregated using an attention module called MetaAttn, shifting computation from deep GNN stacks to efficient meta‑path aggregation. Experiments on 10 real‑world datasets across 24 tasks show that MetaRTL achieves strong performance while reducing computational cost.
By Ken Zhong, Weichen Li, Zheng Wang
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
The paper introduces FlockMTL, an extension for database management systems that deeply integrates large language models and retrieval‑augmented generation into DuckDB. It provides model‑driven scalar and aggregate functions, cost‑based optimizations like batching and caching, and new SQL DDL abstractions (PROMPT and MODEL) to treat LLMs as first‑class schema objects. These features aim to simplify the development of knowledge‑intensive analytical applications by reducing the effort required to orchestrate heterogeneous data systems and manage LLM context.
By Anas Dorbani, Sunny Yasser, Jimmy Lin, Amine Mhedhbi