A new corpus of 108 mixed string-numeric tables shows that advanced tabular learners with basic string embeddings perform well on most real-world data, while large LLM encoders help on free-text heavy tables.
Towards benchmarking foundation models for tabular data with text
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Tabular foundation models excel on tiny- to medium-sized IID data but are outperformed by traditional tree-based and deep learning models on non-IID, large, and high-dimensional datasets, based on evaluations across 11 models and 142 datasets in the new BeyondArena benchmark.
Enterprise tabular data differs from public benchmarks in ways that prevent good generalization of models like TabPFN, TabICL, and ConTextTab between the two domains.
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A new corpus of 108 mixed string-numeric tables shows that advanced tabular learners with basic string embeddings perform well on most real-world data, while large LLM encoders help on free-text heavy tables.
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Beyond IID: How General Are Tabular Foundation Models, Really?
Tabular foundation models excel on tiny- to medium-sized IID data but are outperformed by traditional tree-based and deep learning models on non-IID, large, and high-dimensional datasets, based on evaluations across 11 models and 142 datasets in the new BeyondArena benchmark.
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Exploring Differences Between Tabular Enterprise Data and Public Benchmarks
Enterprise tabular data differs from public benchmarks in ways that prevent good generalization of models like TabPFN, TabICL, and ConTextTab between the two domains.