Tabular foundation models enter the arena, mocked: 'wait until you find out about xgboost'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-21
A post announcing "Tabular Foundational Models enter the arena" was met with a pointed quote-tweet: "Wait until you guys find out about xgboost" — a nod to gradient-boosted trees' stubborn dominance on structured data, and the skepticism tabular foundation models face against classical ML baselines.
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