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New adapter enhances economic validity of tabular foundation models

Researchers have developed a novel two-stage adapter to improve the economic validity of tabular foundation models used for discrete choice prediction. These models, while accurate, often produce predictions that contradict economic principles, such as increasing demand with higher prices. The proposed adapter first estimates a choice model with parameters adhering to economic theory and then trains a correction term that integrates the foundation model's predictions. This approach ensures economic consistency, like monotonic price-demand relationships, while retaining the accuracy gains of the foundation models, outperforming standard models and conventional distillation methods on transportation datasets. AI

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New adapter enhances economic validity of tabular foundation models

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Yingshuo Wang, Xian Sun, Yanhang Li, Zhichao Fan, Zexin Zhuang ·

    Auditing and Fixing Economic Validity in Tabular Foundation Models for Discrete Choice

    arXiv:2605.26559v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular foundation models achieve strong accuracy on choice prediction tasks, but their predictions often violate the economic logic those tasks require: raising a price sometimes increases predicted demand, and implied willingnes…