arXiv AI
Jun 9

TRL-Bench: Standardizing Cross-Paradigm Representation-Level Evaluation of Tabular Encoders

arXiv:2606. 09323v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular encoders are usually evaluated inside task-specific end-to-end pipelines, so models from different training paradigms are difficult to compare directly even when they operate on similar tabular signals.

By Wei Pang, Xiangru Jian, Hehan Li, Zhixuan Yu, Alex Xue, Jinyang Li, Zhengyuan Dong, Xinjian Zhao, Hao Xu, Chao Zhang, Reynold Cheng, M. Tamer \"Ozsu, Tianshu Yu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Towards Pretraining Text Encoders for TabPFN

arXiv:2606. 04876v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models, such as TabPFN, achieve strong performance on tabular datasets with numerical and categorical data, but do not natively handle high-cardinality text features.

By Mustafa Tajjar, Alexander Pfefferle, Lennart Purucker, Frank Hutter
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Towards Universal Tabular Embeddings: A Benchmark Across Data Tasks

The paper introduces TEmBed, a unified benchmark for evaluating tabular embeddings across four representation levels—cell, row, column, and table—using a diverse set of models. It demonstrates that the best model depends on the specific task and representation level, providing practical guidance for selecting embeddings in real-world applications. The study aims to facilitate the development of more general-purpose tabular representation models.

By Liane Vogel, Kavitha Srinivas, Niharika D'Souza, Sola Shirai, Oktie Hassanzadeh, Horst Samulowitz
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