Which Tabular Model Should You Actually Use? | David Holzmüller (INRIA)
Published: September 3, 2026
Duration: 55:40
Description
Tabular data is still where most of machine learning actually happens in industry, and the field has changed a lot in the last few years. In this episode we talk with David Holzmüller, a researcher at INRIA and one of the people behind TabArena, TabICL and RealMLP, about what the state of the art looks like right now and how to pick a model for your own data.
We cover the shift to TabPFN-style foundation models that learn to learn from whole tables, why TabArena was built and what earlier benchmarks g...