TSPFN: A Temporal Tabular Foundation Model for Physiological Time Series Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.31013v1
• Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:58:22 GMT
• Title: TSPFN: A Temporal Tabular Foundation Model for Physiological Time Series Classification
• Abstract summary: TSPFN is a foundation model that redesigns TabPFN's architecture for time series data.<n>It is pretrained on 140,000 real-world physiological time series across multiple medical domains.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Designing models that generalize effectively in low- to medium-data regimes remains a primary challenge in medical machine learning, particularly for physiological time-series classification. While tabular foundation models such as TabPFN offer an attractive alternative to conventional fine-tuning through in-context learning, they are not designed to capture the temporal dependencies inherent to physiological signals. ~In this paper, we introduce TSPFN, a foundation model that redesigns TabPFN's architecture for time series data. TSPFN integrates structured temporal representations and positional embeddings to capture intra-sample temporal and channel dependencies. To fully leverage its spatio-temporal design, the model is pretrained on 140,000 real-world physiological time series across multiple medical domains. This yields a unified, generalizable framework capable of learning the specificities of medical time series. Experiments across diverse physiological benchmarks demonstrate that TSPFN consistently outperforms standard tabular baselines and TabPFN, and achieves superior cross-domain generalization compared to specialized deep time-series models. All our experiments, ablation studies, and pre-processing scheme are publicly available at https://github.com/Jeremstym/TSPFN

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