Valid for Free: Homophily-Gated Conformal Prediction for Training-Free Node Classification with Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2610.08564 · cs.LG · Submitted 2026-10-06 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-10-06

Updated: 2026-10-06

Terminology

• Conformal Prediction — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Foundation Model — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• Bringing Graphs to the Table: Zero-shot Node Classification via Tabular Foundation Models
• Turning Tabular Foundation Models into Graph Foundation Models
• Are foundation models for computer vision good conformal predictors?
• GraphPFN: A Prior-Data Fitted Graph Foundation Model
• LoGIC: Budgeted Context Construction for Node-Level Graph In-Context Learning with Tabular Foundation Models
• HeAD-CP: Heterophily-Aware Diffused Conformal Prediction Sets for Graph Neural Networks

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