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Since the seminal work of TabPFN, research on tabular foundation models (TFMs) based on in-context learning (ICL) has challenged long-standing paradigms in machine learning. Without seeing any real-world data, models pretrained on purely…

TabPFN has emerged as a promising in-context learning model for tabular data, capable of directly predicting the labels of test samples given labeled training examples. It has demonstrated competitive performance, particularly on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Si-Yang Liu , Han-Jia Ye

Pre-training is prevalent in deep learning for vision and text data, leveraging knowledge from other datasets to enhance downstream tasks. However, for tabular data, the inherent heterogeneity in attribute and label spaces across datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Han-Jia Ye , Qi-Le Zhou , Huai-Hong Yin , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Advances in deep generative modelling have not translated well to tabular data. We argue that this is caused by a mismatch in structure between popular generative models and discriminative models of tabular data. We thus devise a technique…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Junwei Ma , Apoorv Dankar , George Stein , Guangwei Yu , Anthony Caterini

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

Predictive models play a pivotal role in credit risk management, guiding critical decisions through accurate estimation of default probabilities and losses. Extensive research has introduced new modeling techniques, complemented by…

Tabular foundation models are pre-trained on one of three classes of corpus: curated datasets drawn from benchmark repositories, tables harvested at scale from the web, or synthetic tables sampled from a parametric generative prior. Despite…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Alex O. Davies , Telmo de Menezes e Silva Filho , Nirav Ajmeri

Tabular foundation models such as TabPFN and TabICL already produce full predictive distributions, yet the benchmarks used to evaluate them (TabArena, TALENT, and others) still rely almost exclusively on point-estimate metrics (RMSE,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Jonas Landsgesell , Pascal Knoll

We introduce TabRepo, a new dataset of tabular model evaluations and predictions. TabRepo contains the predictions and metrics of 1310 models evaluated on 200 classification and regression datasets. We illustrate the benefit of our dataset…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-27 David Salinas , Nick Erickson

The recently developed Prior-Data Fitted Networks (PFNs) have shown very promising results for applications in low-data regimes. The TabPFN model, a special case of PFNs for tabular data, is able to achieve state-of-the-art performance on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-24 David Rundel , Julius Kobialka , Constantin von Crailsheim , Matthias Feurer , Thomas Nagler , David Rügamer

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) such as TabPFN (Tabular Prior-Data Fitted Network) are designed to generalize across heterogeneous tabular datasets through in-context learning (ICL). They perform prediction in a single forward pass…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 James Hu , Mahdi Ghelichi

The long-standing dominance of gradient-boosted decision trees on tabular data is currently challenged by tabular foundation models using In-Context Learning (ICL): setting the training data as context for the test data and predicting in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jingang Qu , David Holzmüller , Gaël Varoquaux , Marine Le Morvan

Task-agnostic tabular foundation models such as TabPFN have achieved impressive performance on tabular learning tasks, yet the origins of their inductive biases remain poorly understood. In this work, we study TabPFN through the lens of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jianqiao Zheng , Cameron Gordon , Yiping Ji , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

Deep knowledge tracing models have achieved significant breakthroughs in modeling student learning trajectories. However, these architectures require substantial training time and are prone to overfitting on datasets with short sequences.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Mounir Lbath , Alexandre Parésy , Abdelkayoum Kaddouri , Abdelrahman Zighem , Jill-Jênn Vie

Standard tabular benchmarks mainly focus on the evaluation of a model's capability to interpolate values inside a data manifold, where models good at performing local statistical smoothing are rewarded. However, there exists a very large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Zerui Cheng , Jiashuo Liu , Jianzhu Yao , Pramod Viswanath , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang

Tabular data is prevalent in many critical domains, yet it is often challenging to acquire in large quantities. This scarcity usually results in poor performance of machine learning models on such data. Data augmentation, a common strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Andrei Margeloiu , Adrián Bazaga , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Liò , Mateja Jamnik

Modelling claim frequency and severity for non-life insurance pricing predominantly relies on generalised linear models, with gradient-boosted machines as the leading machine learning alternative. Tabular foundation models (TFMs) present a…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2026-05-26 Bruno Deprez , Wouter Verbeke , Tim Verdonck

Predictive modeling in engineering applications has long been dominated by bespoke models and small, siloed tabular datasets, limiting the applicability of large-scale learning approaches. Despite recent progress in tabular foundation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Lyle Regenwetter , Rosen Yu , Cyril Picard , Faez Ahmed

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

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy