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Professor of #machinelearning at the University of Freiburg, 3x ERC Grant holder, EurAI & ELLIS fellow. All opinions are my own.
Oct 21, 2022 7 tweets 3 min read
This may revolutionize data science: we introduce TabPFN, a new tabular data classification method that takes 1 second & yields SOTA performance (better than hyperparameter-optimized gradient boosting in 1h). Current limits: up to 1k data points, 100 features, 10 classes. 🧵1/6 TabPFN is radically different from previous ML methods. It is meta-learned to approximate Bayesian inference with a prior based on principles of causality and simplicity. Here‘s a qualitative comparison to some sklearn classifiers, showing very smooth uncertainty estimates. 2/6