@article{shapingthepriorhowsynthetictaskdistribut, title = {Shaping the Prior: How Synthetic Task Distributions Determine Tabular Foundation Model Quality}, author = {Mohamed Bouadi and Nassim Bouarour and Varun Kulkarni and Shivam Dubey and Aditya Tanna and Vinay Kumar Sankarapu}, year = {2026}, eprint = {2605.18971}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18971}, }