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TabPFN belongs to the category of model-based meta-learning, encoding the entire learning algorithm into the weights of the Transformer, so no explicit parameter update process is required during inference.
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TabPFN: A Transformer Model for Tabular Classification That Predicts in One Second Without Training
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