Publications

Research on tabular and relational learning.

Selected publications from the group on foundation models, datasets, and benchmarks for tabular and relational data. Papers, code, datasets, and model weights are openly available.

2026
ICML 2026 · arXiv:2602.04029

PluRel: Synthetic Data unlocks Scaling Laws for Relational Foundation Models

A framework for synthesizing multi-table relational databases. The resulting synthetic data yields power-law scaling during pretraining and improves performance on real-world RelBench tasks.

ICLR 2026 · arXiv:2510.06377

Relational Transformer: Toward Zero-Shot Foundation Models for Relational Data

An architecture that transfers across relational databases without fine-tuning. A 22M-parameter model attains 93% of fully-supervised AUROC in a single forward pass, exceeding a 27B-parameter language model.

ICLR 2026 · arXiv:2505.10960

Relational Graph Transformer

A graph transformer architecture designed for the structure of relational entity graphs.

ICLR 2026 DATA-FM Workshop · arXiv:2602.12606

RelBench v2: A Large-Scale Benchmark and Repository for Relational Data

A large-scale benchmark and repository for relational data, providing standardized datasets and tasks for evaluation.

2025
KDD 2025 · arXiv:2506.16654

Relational Deep Learning: Challenges, Foundations and Next-Generation Architectures

A comprehensive review of relational deep learning, surveying its challenges, foundations, and next-generation architectures.

ACL 2025 · arXiv:2506.05725

Large Language Models are Good Relational Learners

Rel-LLM, an architecture that pairs a graph neural network encoder with a large language model through retrieval-augmented generation, bringing the reasoning of LLMs to relational databases.

ICML 2025 · arXiv:2502.06784

RelGNN: Composite Message Passing for Relational Deep Learning

A composite message-passing scheme for relational deep learning that addresses many-to-many relationships, achieving state-of-the-art results on RelBench with improvements of up to 25%.

2024
NeurIPS 2024 · arXiv:2407.20060

RelBench: A Benchmark for Deep Learning on Relational Databases

A benchmark for deep learning on relational databases, comprising seven databases and thirty predictive tasks across diverse domains.

ICML 2024 · PMLR

Position: Relational Deep Learning, Graph Representation Learning on Relational Databases

A position paper introducing relational deep learning, which represents relational databases as graphs to enable end-to-end learning without manual feature engineering.