Inria

Inria (Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique) is the French national institute for research in digital science and technology, operating as a public science and technology institution (EPST) under the ministries responsible for research and the economy. The institute was established in 1967 (initially as IRIA), and its current name and structure evolved alongside the growth of computer science in France.

Inria conducts fundamental and applied research in areas such as machine learning, algorithms, security, distributed systems, scientific computing and artificial intelligence, organising its work around project-teams often shared with universities and other institutions. The institute is known for its active contributions to open source software — the scikit-learn library, among others, traces its origins to Inria.

The Soda team (Inria Saclay) develops tools and models for tabular data, including the TabICL family of foundation models (in-context learning for classification and regression) and the skrub library for data preparation. TabICL is released under the permissive BSD 3-Clause license with full inference and pre-training code.