Distillation of Tabular Foundation Models into Efficient Predictors

arXiv:2610.01435 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-01 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-01

Updated: 2026-10-01

Terminology

• Distillation — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Causilo Technical Report
• TabPFN-2.5: Advancing the State of the Art in Tabular Foundation Models
• TabPFN-3: Technical Report
• Distilling the Knowledge in a Neural Network
• GEAR: Generative Expansion and Real Anchoring for Two-Stage Distillation of Tabular Foundation Models
• Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Trees

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