diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -26,4 +26,4 @@ flaml
 # notebooks
 ipykernel
 pyreadr
-tabpfn
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+# tabpfn  # only relevant for TabPFN example notebooks
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