iLTM: Integrated Large Tabular Model

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Authors: David Bonet, M Cara, Alvaro Calafell, Daniel Mas Montserrat, Alexander Ioannidis
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Abstract

Tabular data underpins decisions across science, industry, and public services. Despite rapid progress, advances in deep learning have not fully carried over to the tabular domain, where gradient-boosted decision trees (GBDTs) remain a default choice in practice. We present iLTM, an integrated Large Tabular Model that unifies tree-derived embeddings, dimensionality-agnostic representations, a meta-trained hypernetwork, multilayer perceptrons (MLPs), and retrieval within a single architecture. Pre-trained on more than 1,800 heterogeneous classification datasets, iLTM achieves consistently superior performance across tabular classification and regression tasks, from small datasets to large and high-dimensional tasks. After light fine-tuning, the meta-trained hypernetwork transfers to regression targets, matching or surpassing strong baselines. Extensive experiments show that iLTM outperforms well-tuned GBDTs and leading deep tabular models while requiring less task-specific tuning. By bridging the gap between tree-based and neural methods, iLTM offers a new framework for tabular foundation models for robust, adaptable, and scalable tabular learning.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) Machine Learning and Data Classification Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning

Publication details

Journal / source
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining V.2
Publisher
ACM
Pages
186–197
Publication date
6 August 2026