TabTune: A Unified Library for Inference and Fine-Tuning Tabular Foundation Models
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Abstract (arXiv)
Tabular foundation models represent a growing paradigm in structured data learning, extending the benefits of large-scale pretraining to tabular domains. However, their adoption remains limited due to heterogeneous preprocessing pipelines, fragmented APIs, inconsistent fine-tuning procedures, and the absence of standardized evaluation for deployment-oriented metrics such as calibration and fairness. We present TabTune, a unified library that standardizes the complete workflow for tabular foundation models through a single interface. TabTune provides consistent access to seven state-of-the-art models supporting multiple adaptation strategies, including zero-shot inference, meta-learning, supervised fine-tuning (SFT), and parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT). The framework automates model-aware preprocessing, manages architectural heterogeneity internally, and integrates evaluation modules for performance, calibration, and fairness. Designed for extensibility and reproducibility, TabTune enables consistent benchmarking of adaptation strategies of tabular foundation models.
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Citing papers per year: 2025: 1; 2026: 9.
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- 2026Exploring Fine-Tuning for Tabular Foundation Modelscited by 9
- 2025Orion-Bix: Bi-Axial Attention for Tabular In-Context Learningcited by 6
- 2026Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Treescited by 2
- 2026Shaping the Prior: How Synthetic Task Distributions Determine Tabular Foundation Model Qualitycited by 2
- 2026Efficient Adaptive Data Acquisition via Pretrained Belief Representationscited by 2
- 2026Distributional Regression with Tabular Foundation Models: Evaluating Probabilistic Predictions via Proper Scoring Rulescited by 1
- 2026Distilling Tabular Foundation Models for Structured Health Datacited by 1
- 2026TFM-Retouche: A Lightweight Input-Space Adapter for Tabular Foundation Modelscited by 0
- 2026Data Presentation Over Architecture: Resampling Strategies for Credit Risk Prediction with Tabular Foundation Modelscited by 0
- 2026Ensembling Tabular Foundation Models - A Diversity Ceiling And A Calibration Trapcited by 0
- 2026Efficient Adaptive Data Acquisition via Pretrained Belief Representations23 Jun 2026
- 2026Shaping the Prior: How Synthetic Task Distributions Determine Tabular Foundation Model Quality18 May 2026
- 2026Distilling Tabular Foundation Models for Structured Health Data18 May 2026
- 2026Ensembling Tabular Foundation Models - A Diversity Ceiling And A Calibration Trap18 May 2026
- 2026Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Trees18 May 2026
- 2026Data Presentation Over Architecture: Resampling Strategies for Credit Risk Prediction with Tabular Foundation Models18 May 2026
- 2026TFM-Retouche: A Lightweight Input-Space Adapter for Tabular Foundation Models7 May 2026
- 2026Distributional Regression with Tabular Foundation Models: Evaluating Probabilistic Predictions via Proper Scoring Rules9 Mar 2026
- 2026Exploring Fine-Tuning for Tabular Foundation Models14 Jan 2026
- 2025Orion-Bix: Bi-Axial Attention for Tabular In-Context Learning28 Nov 2025