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GeneICL: A Tabular Foundation Model for Bulk Transcriptomics

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Oct 6, 2026 · UTC

Gene expression is widely measured in biomedicine, yet clinical outcome prediction remains challenging due to high dimensionality, strong feature correlations, and limited labeled data. Large self-supervised transcriptomic foundation models often fail to outperform simple supervised baselines. Tabular foundation models offer an alternative through in-context learning, but are typically pretrained on generic synthetic data rather than transcriptomic structure. We ask whether transcriptomics-aware pretraining, rather than scale, is the missing ingredient. Towards this end, we introduce GeneICL,

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