{"ref":"content:devtoberfest-2026-tabular-foundation-models","page":"/content/devtoberfest-2026-tabular-foundation-models","json":"/content/devtoberfest-2026-tabular-foundation-models.json","generated":"2026-10-26","drafted_with_ai":true,"entity":{"id":"devtoberfest-2026-tabular-foundation-models","title":"Unlocking Tabular Foundation Models: From Experimentation to Production","content_type":"talk","url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8iO1JWEVFM","published_on":"source:youtube","published":"2026-10-15","author":"SAP Developers","summary":"A Devtoberfest 2026 session (AI-41) on taking tabular prediction from a playground to a deployment. It sets tabular foundation models against a model trained per use case and against language models reading rows as text, explains in-context learning as examples plus the rows whose target column is missing, and tries SAP RPT 1.6 on a train-delay dataset in the RPT playground, including the column and row importance it returns with the prediction. The same prediction is then rebuilt on [SAP AI Core](artifact:btp-ai-core), where the tabular orchestration service plays the part the orchestration service plays for language models: a data destination, a table artifact with its CSN schema and a scenario configuration registered once at design time, after which a predict call passes only the query rows, the scenario configuration and a context-selection strategy. The last demo runs those same calls in natural language through the [aicore-skills](artifact:sap-aicore-skills) plugin in a coding agent, and one of them only resolves once the agent is told which scenario configuration to use.","short":"Taking tabular foundation models from playground to production","explains":["artifact:btp-ai-core","artifact:sap-aicore-skills",{"ref":"capability:predictive-models","applies_to":{"ecosystems":["btp"]}}],"provenance":{"discovered_via":[{"source":"source:youtube","channel":"devtoberfest-2026"}],"first_seen":"2026-10-19"},"drafted_with_ai":true},"readings":{"liveness":[{"label":"Checked against the source","tier":"unknown","evidence":"nobody has checked it"},{"label":"Source reachable","tier":"unknown","evidence":"not crawled"},{"label":"Age","tier":"good","evidence":"published this month"}],"compatibility":[{"label":"Version","tier":"unknown","evidence":"no version declared"},{"label":"Moved since?","tier":"good","evidence":"no recorded change after 2026-10-15"},{"label":"Findings","tier":"good","evidence":"none flagged"}],"reach":[{"value":null,"unit":"views"},{"value":null,"unit":"comments"},{"value":null,"unit":"likes"}]},"signals":null,"series":null,"edges":{"authors":[]}}