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Can one model handle images, audio, text, and molecules equally well?
Julien Lafrance
June 1, 2026
A preprocessing step (Equiangular Tight Frame) paired with a tabular foundation model can classify data across wildly different modalities—images, audio, speech, text, molecules, time-series, and tables—without retraining. It stays competitive with specialized models on frozen features while running orders of magnitude faster than backbone fine-tuning. The practical contribution: how to calibrate confidence scores so practitioners can reject uncertain predictions automatically.
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