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Established Machine Learning Matches Tabular Foundation Models in Clinical Predictions

2026-02-04

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Foundation models (FMs) promise to standardise predictive modeling across domains, yet their clinical value for tabular data remains unproven. To test this, we performed a large, fully reproducible benchmark of TabPFN, a leading FM for tabular prediction, against twelve established machine learning (ML) methods across twelve binary clinical tasks. Cohorts spanned 788 - 139,528 patients across diverse outcomes, inc...

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Literature Corpus work: 1e4af4cd-99cf-5da3-a674-39cf0f6e58b6
DOI: 10.64898/2026.02.02.26345274

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