Tabular Foundation Models Beat Tuned GBDTs — and They Fit on a Desk
Tabular foundation models now beat four-hour-tuned gradient boosting with statistical significance — while TabPFN-3 fits on a single GPU. What changes, and when GBDTs still win.
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Tabular foundation models now beat four-hour-tuned gradient boosting with statistical significance — while TabPFN-3 fits on a single GPU. What changes, and when GBDTs still win.
Pi 1.0 shipped 1 October and the bandwagon is rolling. Instead of boarding it we ran a workshop and an adversarial sandbox probe: the recommended Docker config leaks, the 'hardened' flags crash, and the spec still beats the model.