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PublishedMay 19, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Pocket Foundation Models: Distilling TFMs into CPU-Ready Gradient-Boosted Trees
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arXiv:2605.18654v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A fraud scorer needs to answer in under 2 ms. The best tabular foundation models (TFMs) take 151-1,275 ms on GPU. We close this gap by distilling the TFM offline into an XGBoost or CatBoost student that runs natively on CPU. The central obstacle is s
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