Why Tabular Foundation Models Should Be a Research Priority

arXiv:2405.01147v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent text and image foundation models are incredibly impressive, and these models are attracting an ever-increasing portion of research resources. In this position piece we aim to shift the ML research community's priorities ever so slightly to a different modality: tabular data. Tabular data is the dominant modality in many fields, yet it is given hardly any research attention and significantly lags behind in terms of scale and power. We believe the time is now …

abstract aim arxiv community cs.lg data ever foundation image ml research research research community resources shift tabular tabular data text type