# Tabular foundation models Projects at AI Tinkerers

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Pre-trained deep learning models that deliver instant, state-of-the-art predictions on structured data without task-specific training.

For two decades, gradient-boosted decision trees like XGBoost ruled tabular machine learning, requiring extensive hyperparameter tuning and custom pipelines for every new dataset. Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN disrupt this paradigm by applying transformer architectures to structured data. Trained on millions of synthetic datasets, these models use in-context learning to perform classification and regression in a single forward pass. By eliminating the need for manual feature engineering or training loops, TFMs deliver highly accurate predictions on small-to-medium datasets in seconds, fundamentally shifting how teams deploy machine learning for spreadsheets.

- Official technology site: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN
- Public AI Tinkerers demos and talks: 1
- Result page: 1 of 1

## Recent Public Talks and Demos

### [Teaching an Agent to Behave Like a Data Scientist: A Statistical Harness for Tabular ML](https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_dYE4vQbTMCM)

We built QAgent, an agent that plans and acts like a human data scientist. Coding harnesses such as Claude Code treat data science as a coding problem and miss the nuances: checking for bias, treating data leakage, and ultimately producing results that look correct but rest on flawed methodology. QAgent fixes that with a harness built for data science: the right interface to the data, and constraints that unlock principled data science capabilities in LLMs.

- Event context: AI Tinkerers Demo Night: Agents in Various Forms — 2026-09-03 — Amsterdam
- Public talk page: https://amsterdam.aitinkerers.org/talks/rsvp_dYE4vQbTMCM

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