Josh Gardner (Apple):Toward Robust, Reliable, and Generalizable Tabular Data Models

Tabular data is widely used across many domains and real-world applications. However, tabular data research has not yet achieved the level of robust and transferable large-scale modeling which has been hugely impactful for data modalities such as text, images, and audio. In this talk, I will apply an empirical perspective to understand the landscape of robustness and transferability in tabular data, and discuss our recent progress toward improved data, models, and evaluations to enable true tabular foundation models.