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TabPFN

⚡ TabPFN: Foundation Model for Tabular Data ⚡

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⚡ TabPFN: Foundation Model for Tabular Data ⚡

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Prior Labs | Berlin, Freiburg, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | Technical PM, ML Infra, Research Scientist/Engineer, Backend, Full Stack We build foundation models for tabular data. Deep learning transformed text and images but mostly skipped tables, which are still the data behind most clinical trials, financial models and scientific experiments. The reason is structural: no natural sequence, no spatial structure, no shared vocabulary across datasets, so the architectures and scaling laws behind LLMs don't transfer. Our approach: pre-train a transformer on millions of synthetic datasets sampled from causal-structure priors. The whole dataset goes in as context, predictions come out in one forward pass. No per-dataset training, no hyperparameter tuning, seconds instead of hours. TabPFN v2 was published in Nature and set a new state of the art;
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TabPFN-3 scales to 10M rows. 4M+ downloads, 8k+ GitHub stars, in production from liquid biopsy to rail maintenance. Code: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN Since July we're an independent lab inside SAP, with more than EUR 1B committed over four years. Models stay open, research stays public, same team and offices. Roles (most can sit in any of the three offices): - Technical Product Manager, Integrations: take every model release live across SAP (AI Core to SAP Analytics Cloud), the cloud marketplaces and customer environments, and help decide which channels we build next. Reports to me, close to the code. - ML Engineer, Infrastructure: own multi-cluster GPU infra (Slurm on GCP today, multi-provider next), training performance and the tooling layer. We spend tens of millions per year on compute; you own that budget. - Research Scientist, Foundation Model: drive the model agenda - novel architectures, scaling from 10K to 1M+ samples, multimodal and causal directions. PhD plus top-venue publications, or equivalent. - Research Engineer, Foundation Model: same agenda from the engineering side. You design experiments, write the training and eval infra, and co-author the papers. - ML Engineer, Backend: design and scale the backend that serves and finetunes the models. Python/FastAPI, Terraform, K8s. - Full Stack Engineer, ML Platform: build the product end to end. TypeScript + Python, React/FastAPI/Postgres. Also hiring: Applied Scientist, Forward Deployed ML Engineer, Research Scientist (Foundational Data Science), PhD research interns, plus GTM and ops roles. 40+ people with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Jane Street, Goldman, G-Research, CERN. Led by Frank Hutter, advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Yann LeCun. Comp competitive with top AI labs. All roles and applications: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prior-labs Questions welcome in the replies here.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
Prior Labs | Berlin, Freiburg, NYC | ONSITE | Full-time | ML Infra, Research Scientist/Engineer, Backend, Full Stack We build foundation models for tabular data. Deep learning transformed text and images but mostly skipped tables, which are still the data behind most clinical trials, financial models and scientific experiments. The reason is structural: no natural sequence, no spatial structure, no shared vocabulary across datasets, so the architectures and scaling laws behind LLMs don't transfer. Our approach: pre-train a transformer on millions of synthetic datasets sampled from causal-structure priors. The whole dataset goes in as context, predictions come out in one forward pass. No per-dataset training, no hyperparameter tuning, seconds instead of hours. TabPFN v2 was published in Nature and set a new state of the art; TabPFN-3 scale
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s to 10M rows. 4M+ downloads, 8k+ GitHub stars, in production from liquid biopsy to rail maintenance. Code: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN Since July we're an independent lab inside SAP, with more than EUR 1B committed over four years. Models stay open, research stays public, same team and offices. Roles (most can sit in any of the three offices): - Senior ML Infrastructure Engineer: own multi-cluster GPU infra (Slurm on GCP today, multi-provider next), training performance and the tooling layer. We spend tens of millions per year on compute; you own that budget. - Research Scientist, Foundation Model: drive the model agenda - novel architectures, scaling from 10K to 1M+ samples, multimodal and causal directions. PhD plus top-venue publications, or equivalent. - Research Engineer, Foundation Model: same agenda from the engineering side. You design experiments, write the training and eval infra, and co-author the papers. - ML Engineer, Cloud Platform: design and scale the backend that serves and finetunes the models. Python/FastAPI, Terraform, K8s. - Full Stack Engineer, ML Platform: build the product end to end. TypeScript + Python, React/FastAPI/Postgres. Also hiring: Applied Scientist, Forward Deployed ML Engineer, Research Scientist (Foundational Data Science), PhD research interns, plus GTM and ops roles. ~40 people with backgrounds from Google, DeepMind, Jane Street, Goldman, G-Research, CERN. Led by Frank Hutter, advised by Bernhard Schölkopf and Yann LeCun. Comp competitive with top AI labs. All roles and applications: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/prior-labs Questions welcome in the replies here.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
onasta·Nov 6, 2025Submission

Show HN: TabPFN-2.5 – SOTA foundation model for tabular data

I am excited to announce the release of TabPFN-2.5, our tabular foundation model that now scales to datasets of up to 50,000 samples and 2,000 features - a 5x increase from TabPFN v2, published in the Nature journal earlier this year. TabPFN-2.5 delivers state-of-the-art predictions in one forward pass without hyperparameter tuning across classification and regression tasks. What’s new in 2.5: TabPFN-2.5 maintains the core approach of v2 - a pretrained transformer trained on more than hundred million synthetic datasets to perform in-context learning and output a predictive distribution for the test data. It natively supports missing values, cateogrical features, text and numerical features is robust to outliers and uninformative features. The major improvements: - 5x scale increase: Now handles 50,000 samples × 2,000 features (up from 10,
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000 × 500 in v2) - SOTA performance: TabPFN-2.5 outperforms tuned tree-based methods and matches the performance of a complex ensemble (AutoGluon 1.4), that itself includes TabPFN v2, tuned for 4 hours. Tuning the model improves performance, outperforming AutoGluon 1.4 for regression tasks. - Rebuilt API: New REST interface along with Python SDK with dedicated fit & predict endpoints, making deployment and integration more developer-friendly - A distillation engine that converts TabPFN-2.5 into a compact MLP or tree ensemble while preserving accuracy and offer low latency inference. There are still some limitations. The model is designed for datasets up to 50K samples. It can handle larger datasets but that hasn’t been our focus with TabPFN-2.5. The distillation engine is not yet available through the API but only through licenses (though we do show the performance in the model report). We’re actively working on removing these limitations and intend to release newer models focused on context reasoning, causal inference, graph networks, larger data and time-series. TabPFN-2.5 is available via API and a package on Hugging Face. Would love for you to try it and give us your feedback! Model report: https://priorlabs.ai/technical-reports/tabpfn-2-5-model-repo... Package: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN Client: https://github.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn-client Docs: https://docs.priorlabs.ai/quickstart
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clastiche·Jul 14, 2025Submission

Show HN: Boost TabPFN's performance by fine-tuning on proprietary data

TabPFN is a transformer-based foundation model for tabular datasets. Published in Nature earlier this year, it achieves SOTA performance on classification and regression tasks without any per-task training or hyperparameter tuning. With the new tabpfn v2.1 release, fine-tuning is now supported. Similar to LLMs, you can fine-tune tabular foundation models on your proprietary data to boost your performance. A community member wrote a great walkthrough here: https://medium.com/@iivalchev/how-to-fine-tune-tabpfn-on-you... You can also check out the example files directly at these links: > Fine-tune classifier: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN/blob/main/examples/finet... > Fine-tune regressor: https://github.com/PriorLabs/TabPFN/blob/main/examples/finet... If you want to chat or see what others are experimenting with, there’s a Discord too:
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https://discord.com/invite/VJRuU3bSxt Would love to hear what you think when you try it!
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onasta·Jan 9, 2025Submission

Show HN: TabPFN v2 – A SOTA foundation model for small tabular data

I am excited to announce the release of TabPFN v2, a tabular foundation model that delivers state-of-the-art predictions on small datasets in just 2.8 seconds for classification and 4.8 seconds for regression compared to strong baselines tuned for 4 hours. Published in Nature, this model outperforms traditional methods on datasets with up to 10,000 samples and 500 features. The model is available under an open license: a derivative of the Apache 2 license with a single modification, adding an enhanced attribution requirement inspired by the Llama 3 license: https://github.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn. You can also try it via API: https://github.com/PriorLabs/tabpfn-client TabPFN v2 is trained on 130 million synthetic tabular prediction datasets to perform in-context learning and output a predictive distribution for the test data points. Each data
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set acts as one meta-datapoint to train the TabPFN weights with SGD. As a foundation model, TabPFN allows for fine-tuning, density estimation and data generation. Compared to TabPFN v1, v2 now natively supports categorical features and missing values. TabPFN v2 performs just as well on datasets with or without these. It also handles outliers and uninformative features naturally, problems that often throw off standard neural nets. TabPFN v2 performs as well with half the data as the next best baseline (CatBoost) with all the data. We also compared TabPFN to the SOTA AutoML system AutoGluon 1.0. Standard TabPFN already outperforms AutoGluon on classification and ties on regression, but ensembling multiple TabPFNs in TabPFN v2 (PHE) is even better. There are some limitations: TabPFN v2 is very fast to train and does not require hyperparameter tuning, but inference is slow. The model is also only designed for datasets up to 10k data points and 500 features. While it may perform well on larger datasets, it hasn't been our focus. We're actively working on removing these limitations and intend to release new versions of TabPFN that can handle larger datasets, have faster inference and perform in additional predictive settings such as time-series and recommender systems. We would love for you to try out TabPFN v2 and give us your feedback!
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