https://shika-b.github.io/tags/foundation-models/Recent content in Foundation Models on Slow DataHugoen-usWed, 27 May 2026 13:44:57 +0100https://shika-b.github.io/blog/tabular_foundation_models/Wed, 27 May 2026 13:44:57 +0100https://shika-b.github.io/blog/tabular_foundation_models/<p>Most of the data that actually runs the world lives in spreadsheets. Hospital records, bank transactions, sensor logs, messy CSV your colleague emailed you last Tuesday: it&rsquo;s really rows and columns all the way down. While we have been hearing quite a lot about language models writing poetry and code and image models painting cathedrals, the humble tabular prediction task was left to older methods<sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> for quite a long time. That changed a few years ago, with the introduction of various tabular foundation models<sup id="fnref:2"><a href="#fn:2" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">2</a></sup>.</p>