arXiv:2605. 18383v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We present TabH2O, a foundation model for tabular data that performs classification and regression in a single forward pass via in-context learning.
By Pascal Pfeiffer, Dmitry Gordeev, Mathias M\"uller, Laura Fink, Joan Salv\`a Soler, Mark Landry, Branden Murray, Marcos V. Conde, Sri Satish Ambati
arXiv:2602.11139v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Tabular foundation models, such as TabPFNv2 and TabICL, have recently dethroned gradient-boosted trees at the top of predictive benchmarks, demonst...
By Jingang Qu, David Holzm\"uller, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Marine Le Morvan
EXAONE Tabular 1.0 is a compact tabular foundation model family that performs classification and regression via in-context learning without dataset-specific gradient updates. It is pretrained exclusively on a synthetic structural‑causal‑model prior and introduces an architecture‑centered redesign that interleaves feature‑axis and item‑axis attention within each Transformer layer, mediated by summary tokens. Across four public benchmarks, its 20.81 M‑parameter classification model ranks first on TabArena, surpassing tuned ensembles and AutoML pipelines, while its regression model matches the performance of a 1.64 B‑parameter model at roughly one‑eleventh the inference cost, and it achieves top rankings on BCCO, TALENT, and ScoringBench.
By Moonjung Eo, Min-Kook Suh, Hye-Seung Cho, Jiwon Kim, Seoyoon Kim, Sangjun Nam, Soonyoung Lee
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. 01400v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tabular foundation models, driven by in-context learning, have rapidly grown in quality and popularity.
By Rasa Hosseinzadeh, Alex Labach, Zexin Xue, Shuyi Han, Valentin Thomas, Anthony L. Caterini
The paper investigates how synthetic pretraining priors used in tabular foundation models (TFMs) influence downstream performance. By reconstructing the synthetic data generators of four TFMs and comparing their generated tasks to two popular tabular benchmarks using structural descriptors, the authors measure structural coverage and normalized density. They find that some generators provide broader and denser support for benchmark tasks, and that stronger synthetic-to-benchmark support generally correlates with better model performance.
By He Zhao, Ryan Thompson, Daniel M. Steinberg, Ashfaqur Rahman, Edwin V. Bonilla, Cheng Soon Ong