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Estimating Uncoded Crash Factors with Tabular Foundation and System One Models: Kumo Tabular and Jev

arXiv 2610.10321 ↗First posted 7 Oct 2026stat.AP cs.LG stat.MEcited by 0

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Abstract (arXiv)

Road safety programs count the coded fields of police crash records, while the officer's narrative, which often records factors the fields omit, is rarely read. A safety office thus cannot tell how much its counts miss or where to review. This study develops and evaluates a system that joins both views of the 5,601,890 Texas crashes from 2017 to 2025 into population estimates with stated validity. An in-context tabular foundation model, Kumo Tabular, reads the coded record of every crash, a calibrated System One model, Jev, reads the narratives of two probability samples, and human judgments recalibrate its probabilities. A multiwave predict-then-debias estimator joins the three tiers, and a second human tier drawn with recorded probabilities checks the estimates by design. For hydroplaning, medical episodes, fatigue, animals, and phone use, the narrative documents more injury crashes than the coded field, 15,074 against 7,340 for phone use, and the human check agrees with all fifteen estimates within its margin. A re-read list ranked by Kumo Tabular finds confirmed discordance 7 to 58 times as often as random reading. At the planning cost of human coding, one further round of human judgments would cut the root mean square relative half-width from 22.0 to 16.2 percent, against 21.2 for reading every narrative. Two calibrated readers of different views, joined by a sampling design, give a safety office counts, a discordance map, a validated re-read list, and a reading budget, with Kumo Tabular reading the table at 15 times the speed of TabPFN 3.5.

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