Architecture Alignment With Sparse Priors in Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2609.36883 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-29 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-09-29

Updated: 2026-09-29

Terminology

• Alignment — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• A Mechanistic Study of Tabular Foundation Models
• ExplainerPFN: Towards tabular foundation models for model-free zero-shot feature importance estimations
• TabPFN-2.5: Advancing the State of the Art in Tabular Foundation Models
• TabPFN-3: Technical Report
• Where Computation Lives Inside TabPFN: Causal Localisation of Attention Head Function
• TabDPT-Turbo: Efficient In-Context Learning for Tabular Prediction
• Noise Immunity in In-Context Tabular Learning: An Empirical Robustness Analysis of TabPFN's Attention Mechanisms
• TabPFN-Wide: Continued Pre-Training for Extreme Feature Counts
• TabICLv2: A better, faster, scalable, and open tabular foundation model
• Is One Layer Enough? Understanding Inference Dynamics in Tabular Foundation Models
• Towards Evaluating Data Priors for Tabular Foundation Models
• TabPFN: One Model to Rule Them All?

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