SurvFM enables tabular foundation models for right-censored survival prediction

arXiv:2607.09577 · stat.ME, stat.ML · Submitted 2026-07-10 · Read on arXiv

stat.ME, stat.ML

Submitted: 2026-07-10

Updated: 2026-09-06

Comments: 33 pages, 5 figures. Supplementary Information included as an ancillary file

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

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• Ablation — 14× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
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• Calibration — 9× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Robustness — 9× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
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• Provenance — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Adam — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Bayesian Inference — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Generator — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Harness — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Hyperparameters — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• In-Context Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Representation Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Uncertainty Quantification — 1× in this paper · explained in 9 episodes
• Unified Framework — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes

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