STEER: Reducing Inference Cost in Relational Foundation Models through Semantically Informed Sampling

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arXiv:2610.00907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relational foundation models (RFMs) are pretrained once on a collection of relational databases and prediction tasks, and then applied zero-shot to previously unseen databases and tasks. To make a prediction for a target row, an RFM samples a neighborhood of rows linked to that row through foreign keys and uses this neighborhood as its inference context. Lowering inference cost is an important goal for any foundation model, and for RFMs this cost