Arsis

Notes

Correction Heading I

Correction to Syntype v0.1

A second model reviewed Syntype and found four blocking issues: a survival task that mostly predicted harvest, modelled tree heights, a growth task solved by “next year equals this year”, and species reduced to their epithet. Public correction the same evening.

Attached to heading I

Tabular models for ecology

Where do tabular foundation models actually help on ecological data, and where don’t they?

StatusSyntype v0.1 published and corrected; v0.1.1 waiting.

Project

Syntype: preliminary scores on species-trait tasks

Research

Syntype

An open benchmark of tabular models on ecological data. Version 0.1 was corrected in public the day it came out.

2026 · v0.1 corrected, v0.1.1 waiting

Python

github.com/syntype/syntype

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  2. · Survey · Heading I

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