My research interests include Machine Learning and Data Mining, with a primary focus on
Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs for Assisting Tabular Data Prediction,
evaluation and benchmarking of tabular learning models, and I am currently exploring
LLM-based generative recommendation.
Publications
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Tabular Foundation Model
Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. TabSwift: An Efficient Tabular Foundation Model with Row-Wise Attention.
ICML 2026, Spotlight, CCF-A, 第一作者.
SpotlightCCF-AFirst Author
Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. TabPFN Unleashed: A Scalable and Effective Solution to Tabular Classification Problems.
In Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025, CCF-A, 第一作者).
CCF-AFirst Author[Paper]
Han-Jia Ye, Si-Yang Liu, Wei-Lun Chao. A Closer Look at TabPFN v2: Strength, Limitation, and Extension.
In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 38 (NeurIPS'25, CCF-A, 学生第一作者).CCF-AStudent First[Paper]
Zi-Rong Li, Si-Yang Liu, Tian-Zuo Wang, Han-Jia Ye. TabCausal: Pretraining Across Causal Environments for Tabular Causal Discovery.
In 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2026 (ICML@FMSD 2026), 第二作者.
Benchmarking Tabular Data Models
Si-Yang Liu, Hao-Run Cai, Qile Zhou, Huai-Hong Yin, Tao Zhou, Jun-Peng Jiang, Han-Jia Ye.
TALENT: A Tabular Analytics and Learning Toolbox.
Journal of Machine Learning Research 2025 (JMLR, CCF-A, 第一作者).CCF-AFirst Author[Paper][Code]
Jun-Peng Jiang, Si-Yang Liu, Hao-Run Cai, Qile Zhou, Han-Jia Ye.
Representation Learning for Tabular Data: A Comprehensive Survey.
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 2026 (TPAMI, CCF-A).CCF-A[Paper][Code]
Han-Jia Ye, Si-Yang Liu*, Hao-Run Cai*, Qile Zhou, De-Chuan Zhan.
A Closer Look at Deep Learning Methods on Tabular Datasets.
Student First[Paper][Code]
Si-Yang Liu, Han-Jia Ye. From Universal Prediction to Universal Workflows: A Survey of Foundation Models for Structured Data.
第一作者, Under Review.
Under ReviewFirst Author
LLMs for Assisting Tabular Data Prediction
Si-Yang Liu, Zong-Da Li, Chenming Xu, Han Li, Rui-Qiao Chen, Han-Jia Ye. Look ahead Automated Feature Engineering for Tabular Prediction via Kaggle-Guided Knowledge Transfer.
In 2nd ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2026 (ICML@FMSD 2026), 第一作者.
First Author
Si-Yang Liu*, Qile Zhou*, Han-Jia Ye.
Make Still Further Progress: Chain of Thoughts for Tabular Data Leaderboard.
In 1st ICML Workshop on Foundation Models for Structured Data, 2025.First Author[Paper]
Jun-Peng Jiang, Si-Yang Liu, De-Chuan Zhan, Han-Jia Ye.
Mind the Modality Gap: Multimodal Representation Learning for Tabular Data with Text Signals.
[Paper][Code]