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Tabular-image multimodal learning, which integrates structured tabular data with imaging data, holds great promise for a variety of tasks, especially in medical applications. Yet, two key challenges remain: (1) the lack of a standardized,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Jiaqi Luo , Yuan Yuan , Shixin Xu

Revealing novel insights from the relationship between molecular measurements and pathology remains a very impactful application of machine learning in biomedicine. Data in this domain typically contain only a few observations but thousands…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Christopher Kolberg , Jules Kreuer , Jonas Huurdeman , Sofiane Ouaari , Katharina Eggensperger , Nico Pfeifer

Training neural networks on randomly generated artificial datasets yields Bayesian models that capture the prior defined by the dataset-generating distribution. Prior-data Fitted Networks (PFNs) are a class of methods designed to leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Samuel Müller , Arik Reuter , Noah Hollmann , David Rügamer , Frank Hutter

Prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) were recently proposed as a new paradigm for machine learning. Instead of training the network to an observed training set, a fixed model is pre-trained offline on small, simulated training sets from a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-05-19 Thomas Nagler

Tabular data, owing to its ubiquitous presence in real-world domains, has garnered significant attention in machine learning research. While tree-based models have long dominated tabular machine learning tasks, the recently proposed deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zi-Jian Cheng , Zi-Yi Jia , Zhi Zhou , Yu-Feng Li , Lan-Zhe Guo

In this work, we study TabPFN as a training-free, modular summary network for simulation-based Bayesian inference (SBI). Tabular foundation models such as TabPFN are pretrained on broad families of synthetic tabular data-generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Elliot Pickens , Chiraag Gohel , Sidharth Satya

Large Language Models (LLMs) are being applied in a wide array of settings, well beyond the typical language-oriented use cases. In particular, LLMs are increasingly used as a plug-and-play method for fitting data and generating…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hejia Liu , Mochen Yang , Gediminas Adomavicius

State-of-the-art data stream mining has long drawn from ensembles of the Very Fast Decision Tree, a seminal algorithm honored with the 2015 KDD Test-of-Time Award. However, the emergence of large tabular models, i.e., transformers designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Afonso Lourenço , João Gama , Eric P. Xing , Goreti Marreiros

Graph foundation models face several fundamental challenges including transferability across datasets and data scarcity, which calls into question the very feasibility of graph foundation models. However, despite similar challenges, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Dmitry Eremeev , Oleg Platonov , Gleb Bazhenov , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Foundation models are an emerging research direction in tabular deep learning. Notably, TabPFNv2 recently claimed superior performance over traditional GBDT-based methods on small-scale datasets using an in-context learning paradigm, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ivan Rubachev , Akim Kotelnikov , Nikolay Kartashev , Artem Babenko

Tabular data prediction (TDP) is one of the most popular industrial applications, and various methods have been designed to improve the prediction performance. However, existing works mainly focus on feature interactions and ignore sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Xiawei Guo , Yuhan Quan , Huan Zhao , Quanming Yao , Yong Li , Weiwei Tu

Foundation models have revolutionized tasks in computer vision and natural language processing. However, in the realm of tabular data, tree-based models like XGBoost continue to dominate. TabPFN, a transformer model tailored for tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Junwei Ma , Valentin Thomas , Guangwei Yu , Anthony Caterini

TabPFN is a transformer that achieves state-of-the-art performance on supervised tabular tasks by amortizing Bayesian prediction into a single forward pass. However, there is currently no method for uncertainty decomposition in TabPFN.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-05 Sandra Fortini , Kenyon Ng , Sonia Petrone , Judith Rousseau , Susan Wei

Tabular data underpins most high-value prediction problems in science and industry, and TabPFN has driven the foundation model revolution for this modality. Designed with feedback from our users, TabPFN-3 builds on this foundation to scale…

Recent progress in foundation models has enabled strong zero-shot performance for time series forecasting. In this work, we show that such capabilities can also emerge from tabular foundation models. We introduce TabPFN-TS, a simple method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Shi Bin Hoo , Samuel Müller , David Salinas , Frank Hutter

Many text classification applications require models with satisfying performance as well as good interpretability. Traditional machine learning methods are easy to interpret but have low accuracies. The development of deep learning models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Zhengyang Wang , Xia Hu , Shuiwang Ji

While interpretability is crucial for machine learning applications in safety-critical domains and for regulatory compliance, existing tabular foundation models like TabPFN lack transparency. Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) provide the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Andreas Mueller , Julien Siems , Harsha Nori , David Salinas , Arber Zela , Rich Caruana , Frank Hutter

Learning curve extrapolation aims to predict model performance in later epochs of training, based on the performance in earlier epochs. In this work, we argue that, while the inherent uncertainty in the extrapolation of learning curves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Steven Adriaensen , Herilalaina Rakotoarison , Samuel Müller , Frank Hutter

Anomaly detection in tabular data is challenging due to high dimensionality, complex feature dependencies, and heterogeneous noise. Many existing methods rely on proximity-based cues and may miss anomalies caused by violations of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sha Lu , Jixue Liu , Stefan Peters , Thuc Duy Le , Craig Xie , Lin Liu , Jiuyong Li

Neural networks (NNs) achieve outstanding performance in many domains; however, their decision processes are often opaque and their inference can be computationally expensive in resource-constrained environments. We recently proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Chang Yue , Niraj K. Jha