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Deep learning methods have demonstrated outstanding performances on classification and regression tasks on homogeneous data types (e.g., image, audio, and text data). However, tabular data still pose a challenge, with classic machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Antonio Briola , Yuanrong Wang , Silvia Bartolucci , Tomaso Aste

Tabular data is arguably one of the most commonly used data structures in various practical domains, including finance, healthcare and e-commerce. The inherent heterogeneity allows tabular data to store rich information. However, based on a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Kuan-Yu Chen , Ping-Han Chiang , Hsin-Rung Chou , Ting-Wei Chen , Tien-Hao Chang

Building predictive models for tabular data presents fundamental challenges, notably in scaling consistently, i.e., more resources translating to better performance, and generalizing systematically beyond the training data distribution.…

Data organized in tabular format is ubiquitous in real-world applications, and users often craft tables with biased feature definitions and flexibly set prediction targets of their interests. Thus, a rapid development of a robust,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Qiyuan Chen , Danny Ziyi Chen , Jian Wu , Jimeng Sun

Graphs are essential for modeling complex relationships and capturing structured interactions in data. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are particularly effective when such relational structure is explicitly available, but many real-world…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Haozhe Chen , Soheila Farokhi , Kelvyn Bladen , Hamid Karimi , Kevin R. Moon

Many machine learning algorithms for tabular data produce black-box models, which prevent users from understanding the rationale behind the model predictions. In their unconstrained form, graph neural networks fall into this category, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Amr Alkhatib , Henrik Boström

Artificial neural networks which are inspired from the learning mechanism of brain have achieved great successes in many problems, especially those with deep layers. In this paper, we propose a nucleus neural network (NNN) and corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Jia Liu , Maoguo Gong , Haibo He

While deep neural networks (DNN) have become an effective computational tool, the prediction results are often criticized by the lack of interpretability, which is essential in many real-world applications such as health informatics.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-29 Mengnan Du , Ninghao Liu , Qingquan Song , Xia Hu

In this survey, we dive into Tabular Data Learning (TDL) using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a domain where deep learning-based approaches have increasingly shown superior performance in both classification and regression tasks compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Cheng-Te Li , Yu-Che Tsai , Chih-Yao Chen , Jay Chiehen Liao

The use of deep neural network (DNN) models as surrogates for linear and nonlinear structural dynamical systems is explored. The goal is to develop DNN based surrogates to predict structural response, i.e., displacements and accelerations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-05 Nan Feng , Guodong Zhang , Kapil Khandelwal

Understanding the inner workings of deep neural networks (DNNs) is essential to provide trustworthy artificial intelligence techniques for practical applications. Existing studies typically involve linking semantic concepts to units or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-25 Jie Hu , Liujuan Cao , Qixiang Ye , Tong Tong , ShengChuan Zhang , Ke Li , Feiyue Huang , Rongrong Ji , Ling Shao

The performance of Feedforward neural network (FNN) fully de-pends upon the selection of architecture and training algorithm. FNN architecture can be tweaked using several parameters, such as the number of hidden layers, number of hidden…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-01 Tarun Kumar Gupta , Khalid Raza

Recent research in the deep learning field has produced a plethora of new architectures. At the same time, a growing number of groups are applying deep learning to new applications. Some of these groups are likely to be composed of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Leslie N. Smith , Nicholay Topin

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are intensively used to solve a wide variety of complex problems. Although powerful, such systems require manual configuration and tuning. To this end, we view DNNs as configurable systems and propose an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-10 Salah Ghamizi , Maxime Cordy , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

The remarkable performance of overparameterized deep neural networks (DNNs) must arise from an interplay between network architecture, training algorithms, and structure in the data. To disentangle these three components, we apply a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Chris Mingard , Henry Rees , Guillermo Valle-Pérez , Ard A. Louis

We introduce a new class of non-linear models for functional data based on neural networks. Deep learning has been very successful in non-linear modeling, but there has been little work done in the functional data setting. We propose two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Aniruddha Rajendra Rao , Matthew Reimherr

Neural networks often struggle with high-dimensional but small sample-size tabular datasets. One reason is that current weight initialisation methods assume independence between weights, which can be problematic when there are insufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Andrei Margeloiu , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Lio , Mateja Jamnik

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have revolutionized artificial intelligence, achieving impressive results on diverse data types, including images, videos, and texts. However, DNNs still lag behind Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT) on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Kuan-Yu Chen , Ping-Han Chiang , Hsin-Rung Chou , Chih-Sheng Chen , Tien-Hao Chang

We introduce a unified theoretical framework for the rigorous analysis and systematic construction of deep neural networks (DNNs). This framework addresses a gap in existing theory by explicitly modeling the structure of tensor operations…

Neural networks have proved to be very robust at processing unstructured data like images, text, videos, and audio. However, it has been observed that their performance is not up to the mark in tabular data; hence tree-based models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Tushar Sarkar