# tabular (blogs) — RSS Amplifier

Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover tabular.

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Feed: <https://rssamplifier.com/topics/tabular/blogs.md>

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## [Trends in tabular foundation research](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/trends-in-tabular-foundation-research)

_2026-07-22 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

Based on 151 papers from ICML workshop "Foundation Models for Structured Data"

## [Time for a change](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/time-for-a-change)

_2026-07-16 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

After 4 years of writing, I'm exploring what's next for me in ML / data science / AI (or whatever you want to call it)

## [TabFM minus the hype](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/tabfm-minus-the-hype)

_2026-07-07 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

top performance on TabArena; large model; slow inference; non-commercial license

## [Which ML models produce the best quantile estimates?](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/which-regressor-produces-the-best)

_2026-06-30 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

Results from ScoringBench

## [When trees still beat tabular foundation models](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/when-trees-still-beat-tabular-foundation)

_2026-06-23 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

As you might have noticed, I’m rather optimistic about tabular foundation models.

## [What is TabPFN's Thinking mode?](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/what-is-tabpfns-thinking-mode)

_2026-06-16 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

When I read the TabPFN-3 Technical Report, the benchmark for “TabPFN-3-Thinking” stood out: it appeared at the top of the TabArena benchmark for large datasets.

## [How TabICL and TabPFN handle missing values](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/how-tabicl-and-tabpfn-handle-missing)

_2026-06-09 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

You can give training or test data with missing values to the tabular foundation models TabPFN and TabICL, and the prediction will “just work”.

## [TabPFN and TabICL are not everything](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/tabpfn-and-tabicl-are-not-everything)

_2026-06-02 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

An overview of other families for tabular foundation models

## [I’m writing a book on Tabular Foundation Models](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/im-writing-a-book-on-tabular-foundation)

_2026-05-26 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

tl;dr: In-progress book here: tabularfoundationmodels.com

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## [Tabular ML is entering a new benchmark era](https://mindfulmodeler.substack.com/p/tabular-ml-is-entering-a-new-benchmark)

_2026-05-19 · Christoph Molnar · Mindful Modeler_

From static and narrow benchmarks to live, capability-driven evaluation