Engineering Alpha

Engineering Alpha

When Tables Learned to Forecast

How tabular foundation models are turning time series prediction into an ordinary regression problem

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Sofien Kaabar, CFA
Jun 30, 2026
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Most of the recent attention in artificial intelligence has gone to language models.

That makes sense. A system that writes paragraphs and answers questions is considerably easier to demonstrate than one that predicts customer churn from a spreadsheet.

Yet a large part of the world’s useful data does not look like language.

It looks like a table.

A bank has…

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