Google Research introduced TabFM, a foundation model built for tabular data. TabFM performs classification and regression without dataset-specific training. Every prediction comes from a single forward pass. The model reframes tabular prediction as an in-context learning problem. It is available now on Hugging Face and GitHub.

TL;DR

TabFM predicts on unseen tables with no training, tuning, or feature engineering.

It reads the full dataset as one prompt, then predicts via in-context learning.

The architecture combines TabPFN-style row/column attention with TabICL-style in-context learning.