wouldn't xgboost be covered under autogluon? not perfect, but not missing either

Honestly, I don't really know AutoGluon, if this does xgboost tuning that's good.

I do still think ELO scores are still a way to obscure results though. For all we know this is like 0.1% better than a "normal" approach on like 70% of tasks and a tire fire on others.

AutoGluon does their own benchmarking, the default is Elo, but you can switch to other metrics:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/TabArena/leaderboard

xgboost is listed, they say "tuned" but who knows what that means. and its below CatBoost and LightGBM

as an aggregator of models (trees, neural networks, clustering, ...) AutoGluon doesn't really have a dog in this fight

Thanks for the pointer, though I can't seem to find TabFM and AutoGluon at that link?