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From Synthetic Priors to Model Behavior: Structural Coverage in Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 7, 2026 · UTC

Tabular foundation models (TFMs) are commonly pretrained on large collections of procedurally generated synthetic tasks, yet it remains unclear how well these synthetic pretraining priors support the downstream tasks on which the models are evaluated. We study this question from a distribution-level attribution perspective. We recover or reconstruct the synthetic data generators of four TFMs and compare their generated tasks with datasets from two widely used tabular benchmarks. Each dataset is represented by a common set of structural descriptors capturing schema, feature distributions, depen

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