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EXAONE Tabular 1.0: Compact foundation model achieves SOTA on tabular benchmarks

A new technical report introduces EXAONE Tabular 1.0, a compact foundation model family designed for tabular data tasks like classification and regression. This model achieves strong predictive performance and efficiency by interleaving feature-axis and item-axis attention within its Transformer architecture. EXAONE Tabular has demonstrated state-of-the-art results on several benchmarks, including TabArena and ScoringBench, outperforming larger models and complex ensembles with significantly lower inference costs. AI

IMPACT Establishes a new state-of-the-art for compact tabular foundation models, potentially improving efficiency in tabular data applications.

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EXAONE Tabular 1.0: Compact foundation model achieves SOTA on tabular benchmarks

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Moonjung Eo, Min-Kook Suh, Hye-Seung Cho, Jiwon Kim, Seoyoon Kim, Sangjun Nam, Soonyoung Lee ·

    EXAONE Tabular 1.0 : Technical Report

    arXiv:2608.25774v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: EXAONE Tabular is a compact tabular foundation model family for classification and regression via in-context learning, producing predictions without dataset-specific gradient updates. Pretrained exclusively on a synthetic structural…