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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In pursuit of democratizing insights from tabular data I’m pleased to share a paper led by @daniel-gomm.bsky.social on where we stand and where we should go in Open Tabular Insight Extraction: the task of serving analytical insight needs over table collections to those unfamiliar with its contents.

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 23/02/2026

💬 Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social 🇳🇱 on 'What AI is leaving on the table: Towards democratizing insights from tabular data'. 📅 Mon, Feb 23 🕓 16:00-17:00 CET 🔗 Registration: bit.ly/4ash9gn ℹ️ More info: bit.ly/47Qclim

AI for Good Webinar Series 'From Molecules to Models' - today with Madelon Hulsebos on 'What AI is leaving on the table: Towards democratizing insights from tabular data'.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Join the TRL Seminar tomorrow for talks on query ambiguity in open-domain data analysis @daniel-gomm.bsky.social, the SQaLE dataset for training text-to-SQL models @cowolff.bsky.social, and pattern/rule inference from tabular data @erkankarabulut.bsky.social. Info: trl-lab.github.io/trl-seminar/

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Today I wrote an elaborate email, which I hadn't done for a while. I realize that I start to enjoy crafting nice and authentic stories, word by word, now that most texts are LLM'd. The LLM era makes me more creative and thoughtful about my daily writing than before. Here's to more writing in 2026!

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I’m at EurIPS in Copenhagen this week! Great seeing the AI crowd come together in Europe 🤩. Would love to chat with people about 1) AI for tabular data, 2) new collaborations (prospective students, phd visitors, peers from other labs/disciplines), 3) the future of AI in Europe. Some highlights:

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Looking forward to hosting Irina Saparina (Univ. of Edinburgh, saparina.github.io) this Friday for a talk in the TRL Seminar on "From Implicit Bias to Explicit Choice: Handling Ambiguity in Text-to-SQL Parsing" 👀. 📆 Fri 28 Nov 4-5pm CEST 📍 CWI lobby 3:50pm or Zoom 👇 trl-lab.github.io/trl-seminar

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Excited to introducd the SQaLe dataset for text-to-SQL training/tuning at scale. SQaLe is the first large-scale text-to-SQL dataset grounded in real schemas and covers a broad range of realistic queries (eg # joins, operations). SQaLe provides 517K high-quality question/schema/query triples 🤩.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Are We Asking the Right Questions? With @daniel-gomm.bsky.social and @cowolff.bsky.social we wrote a reflection on ambiguity in natural language queries for tabular data analysis: What queries should we expect, facilitate? On what should tabular data analysis systems be evaluated, and how? See thrd

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I'm hiring PhDs through the ELLIS PhD program for research on table representation learning to democratize insights from tabular data! Info: trl-lab.github.io/open-positio... Apply: apply.ellis.eu (31 Oct) Join us in beautiful Amsterdam at @cwi-amsterdam.bsky.social & @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social ✨

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

🚀 Excited to announce the AI for Tabular Data workshop at EurIPS 2025 in Copenhagen! CfP: sites.google.com/view/eurips2... (papers due 20 Oct) Join us @euripsconf.bsky.social to discuss neural tabular models and systems for predictive ML, tabular reasoning and retrieval, table synthesis and more ✨

Announcement for the EurIPS'25 Workshop on AI for Tabular Data. More information about the workshop can be found at: https://sites.google.com/view/eurips25-ai-td/home.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Off to London 🇬🇧 for @vldb.bsky.social! Looking forward to the panel discussion on neural models and tabular data Tue 10:45 🔥. I’ll share my thoughts on the state of affairs, promising paradigms, and future directions for TRL. Will share my input and some take-aways of the discussions post conf.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Excited to be at ACL! Join us at the Table Representation Learning workshop tomorrow in room 2.15 to talk about tables and AI. We also present a paper showing the sensitivity of LLMs in tabular reasoning to e.g. missing vals and duplicates, by @cowolff.bsky.social at 16:50: arxiv.org/abs/2505.07453

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Cornelius Wolff @cowolff.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

The paper's called: "How well do LLMs reason over tabular data, really?" 📊 We dig into two important questions: 1️⃣ Are general-purpose LLMs robust with real-world tables? 2️⃣ How should we actually evaluate them? (2/4)

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Very excited about this! Aligns well with my 🇪🇺 focus this year.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Join us for discussions and talks on data management aspects for end-to-end ML on 27 June at @deem-workshop.bsky.social in Berlin. Keynotes by @pinartozun.bsky.social and @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social 🤩 Check the full schedule deem-workshop.github.io#schedule & proceedings dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

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Lennart Purucker @lennartpurucker.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

🚨What is SOTA on tabular data, really? We are excited to announce 𝗧𝗮𝗯𝗔𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗮, a living benchmark for machine learning on IID tabular data with: 📊 an online leaderboard (submit!) 📑 carefully curated datasets 📈 strong tree-based, deep learning, and foundation models 🧵

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Let’s collaborate on democratizing insights from tabular data in Amsterdam! ✨ PhD directions: 1) fundamental techniques for tabular foundation models, 2) reliable mechanisms for AI-powered tabular data analysis. Sharing w/ friends appreciated! ⬇️

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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Proceedings of the Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning | ACM Conferences

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 05/06/2025

🏹 Job alert: 2 fully-funded PhD Positions at Table Representation Learning Lab - @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social‬ 📍 Amsterdam 🇳🇱 📅 Apply by June 30 🔗 More info: bit.ly/4519pj1

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Cornelius Wolff @cowolff.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

"Can LLMs really reason over tabular data, really?" That’s the title and central question of my first paper in my new role as a PhD student, which has been accepted to the 4th Table Representation Learning Workshop @ ACL 2025! arxiv.org/pdf/2505.07453 🧵Here’s what we found:

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Eager to contribute to democratizing insights from tabular data? We have 2 new PhD openings! ✨ 1) Fundamental Techniques in Table Representation Learning 2) Reliable AI-powered Tabular Data Analysis Systems ⏰ Apply by: 30 June 2025 📅 Start: Fall/Winter 2025 🔗 Info: trl-lab.github.io/open-positions

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

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Open positions | TRL Lab

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This talk is today, 4-5pm UvA lab42 Amsterdam and Zoom. Looking forward 🤩

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Table Representation Learning research @trl-research.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Good news for authors of submissions to the Table Representation Learning workshop @ ACL: we're extending the deadline a little bit. Papers are due 21 April. No exceptions from there :).

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Excited to share the new monthly Table Representation Learning (TRL) Seminar under the ELLIS Amsterdam TRL research theme! To recur every 2nd Friday. Who: Marine Le Morvan, Inria (in-person) When: Friday 11 April 4-5pm (+drinks) Where: L3.36 Lab42 Science Park / Zoom trl-lab.github.io/trl-seminar/

Details about the seminar talk titled TabICL: A Tabular Foundation Model for In-Context Learning on Large Data by Marine Le Morvan

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

To international (US?!) academic friends and followers: be prepared to apply for some great research funding opportunities to continue or start your lab in the Netherlands (www.nwo.nl/en/news/nwo-...). Feel free to reach out -- although I might not have all answers..

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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) is working on a new fund to facilitate the relocation of international top researchers to the Netherlands. The fund will enable scientists to continue their research a...

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This was a very inspiring and energizing gathering in Amsterdam, with research on tabular QA, retrieval, KGs, etc: tinyurl.com/56nd7hk5. Thanks to all speakers, attendees, organizers, volunteers and support! Looking forward to more exchanges around table representation learning and related topics!

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Good point! Glad we’ll also be hosting the Table Representation Learning workshop at ACL in Vienna this year (deadline 15 April) 🇪🇺 I wonder if NeurIPS could still be routed to Canada or another country? Would it send a (good) message?

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Vincent D. Warmerdam @koaning.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Youtube and LinkedIn has *a lot* of click-baity optimism when it comes to AI tools. Not all of it is bad, but I figured it might be fun to dive into AI-fails some more instead.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Submissions (long and short) are due in roughly 4 weeks! ✨

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Daniel Gomm @daniel-gomm.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

How can we make LLMs understand tabular data better? My latest blog post compares table serialization techniques using the Table Serialization Kitchen, showing large gaps between approaches in table retrieval settings. daniel-gomm.github.io/blog/2025/Ta...

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Table Serialization Kitchen - A Recipe for Better LLM Performance on Tabular Data | Daniel Gomm

This blog post explores table serializations and their impact on downstream tasks using the Table Serialization Kitchen.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Excited for this year’s edition of the data management for ML workshop co-located with SIGMOD in Berlin! Besides recent work, we’ll host @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social and @pinartozun.bsky.social 🚀 Feeling inspired by DeepSeek’s specialized file system? Share your latest work: deem-workshop.github.io!

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DEEM: Workshop on Data Management for End-to-End Machine Learning @ ACM SIGMOD 2025

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Table Representation Learning research @trl-research.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

We're excited to share that the 4th Table Representation Learning (TRL) workshop will be held at ACL 2025 in Vienna 🇪🇺 We invite papers on all things LLMs/ML and tabular data! table-representation-learning.github.io/ACL2025/ In 2025, TRL@ACL being in Europe and in summer complements TRL@NeurIPS ☀️

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Who’s with me to nominate Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social for ELLIS membership? From there I assume others will take it to scholar/fellow :).

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data ✨ sites.google.com/view/rl-and-... Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC. We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

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Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🤖 Our year begins with talk of #AI – but in a different way. @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social and Romina Colman explain you how and why we're integrating artificial intelligence into the #OpenDataEditor taking into account #transparency, #privacy and #functionality. 🦾 buff.ly/4a9S206

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We’ve had a wonderful edition of the Table Representation Learning workshop @NeurIPS 2024! Thanks to all for bringing such great energy and contributions! This was the 3rd edition and it's so great to see the interest in ML for tables, as well as the diversity and quality of TRL research rising 🚀.

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Aécio Santos @aeciosan.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

@madelonhulsebos.bsky.social kicking off the 3rd Table Representation Learning workshop (@trl-research.bsky.social) at NeurIPS 2024. First keynote by @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Excited to hear about all the great work people have been working on! It's amazing to see this community grow and become stronger every year 🤩. Impact assured.

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

No better way to start the day than with some quiet beautiful views of Canadian nature, before jumping into NeurIPS vibes ✨

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Can't wait to appear in "The Story of AI" neurips.cc/Conferences/... 🙃 OK, off to NeurIPS for the 3rd Table Representation Learning workshop 🤩 table-representation-learning.github.io 14 Dec 8:30AM! Will also present the TARGET benchmark for table retrieval target-benchmark.github.io 🎯! DM for ☕!

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

In the middle of the AI buzz in Zürich... I really enjoyed my visit to ETH to talk about Table Representation Learning and Data Systems, and meet the excellent Systems Group! Thanks to Ana and Gustavo for hosting me so wonderfully! 🙏 🖇️ www.madelonhulsebos.com/assets/eth_c... Bottom line:

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Peter Boncz @peterabcz.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Some pictures of the CWI lectures on database architecture, more here: cwida.github.io/dbdbd2024/di... 🙏 to Marcin Zukowski + @andypavlo.bsky.social @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social @hannes.muehleisen.org, Viktor Leis & Allison Lee for their contributions, but also to all who attended!

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

WIP starterpack w researchers on Table Representation Learning (TRL): all things related to representation learning and generative models for e.g. tables, DBs, spreadsheets! I'll curate but DM/reply w handle+some info welcome! Also follow @trl-research.bsky.social for updates 🤗 go.bsky.app/4SNSMRj

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Jan-Willem van de Meent @jwvdm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

For those of you based in the low countries, I put together a quick started pack with folks in the AI, ML, and Stats communities. Do let me know if you would like to be listed! go.bsky.app/LFHNMNk

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Madelon Hulsebos @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Great to see how my X timeline is even worse than it already was, following the big migration. Wonder how 🦋 will sustain though, hopefully w/o ads, selling data / ownership for influence. I'd be happy to donate $1-2 pm w/o benefits if the "custom domain" approach doesn't work out. Wikipedia style?

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