Summary of Tunetables: Context Optimization For Scalable Prior-data Fitted Networks, by Benjamin Feuer et al.
TuneTables: Context Optimization for Scalable Prior-Data Fitted Networks
by Benjamin Feuer, Robin Tibor Schirrmeister, Valeriia Cherepanova, Chinmay Hegde, Frank Hutter, Micah Goldblum, Niv Cohen, Colin White
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers aim to improve the performance of prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) in tabular classification tasks. PFNs are a type of neural network that uses pretraining and in-context learning to make predictions on new tasks. While they have shown strong performance on small datasets, current PFNs have limitations when it comes to larger datasets. To overcome these limitations, the authors introduce TuneTables, a parameter-efficient fine-tuning strategy for PFNs that compresses large datasets into a smaller learned context. The strategy is tested on 19 algorithms over 98 datasets and outperforms boosted trees such as CatBoost while optimizing fewer than 5% of TabPFN’s parameters. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PFNs are special kinds of artificial intelligence networks that can learn from data before being used for new tasks. They’re really good at making predictions, but they have some limitations. Researchers want to make them better and faster. They made a new way called TuneTables that makes PFNs work better with big datasets too. It’s like a superpower that helps them understand things better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Classification * Fine tuning * Neural network * Parameter efficient * Pretraining
