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LimiX: Unleashing Structured-Data Modeling Capability for Generalist Intelligence

Machine Learning 2025-11-10 v2 Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language

Abstract

We argue that progress toward general intelligence requires complementary foundation models grounded in language, the physical world, and structured data. This report presents LimiX-16M and LimiX-2M, two instantiations of our large structured-data models (LDMs). Both models treat structured data as a joint distribution over variables and missingness, thus capable of addressing a wide range of tabular tasks through query-based conditional prediction via a single model. They are pretrained using masked joint-distribution modeling with an episodic, context-conditional objective, supporting rapid, training-free adaptation at inference. We evaluate LimiX models across 11 large structured-data benchmarks with broad regimes of sample size, feature dimensionality, class number, categorical-to-numerical feature ratio, missingness, and sample-to-feature ratios. LimiX-16M consistently surpasses strong baselines, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2. The superiority holds across a wide range of tasks, such as classification, regression, missing value imputation, and data generation, often by substantial margins, while avoiding task-specific architectures or bespoke training per task. Notably, LimiX-2M delivers strong results under tight compute and memory budgets. We also present the first scaling law study for LDMs, revealing how data and model scaling jointly influence downstream performance and offering quantitative guidance for tabular foundation modeling. All LimiX models are publicly accessible under Apache 2.0.

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@article{arxiv.2509.03505,
  title  = {LimiX: Unleashing Structured-Data Modeling Capability for Generalist Intelligence},
  author = {Xingxuan Zhang and Gang Ren and Han Yu and Hao Yuan and Hui Wang and Jiansheng Li and Jiayun Wu and Lang Mo and Li Mao and Mingchao Hao and Ningbo Dai and Renzhe Xu and Shuyang Li and Tianyang Zhang and Yue He and Yuanrui Wang and Yunjia Zhang and Zijing Xu and Dongzhe Li and Fang Gao and Hao Zou and Jiandong Liu and Jiashuo Liu and Jiawei Xu and Kaijie Cheng and Kehan Li and Linjun Zhou and Qing Li and Shaohua Fan and Xiaoyu Lin and Xinyan Han and Xuanyue Li and Yan Lu and Yuan Xue and Yuanyuan Jiang and Zimu Wang and Zhenlei Wang and Peng Cui},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.03505},
  year   = {2025}
}

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