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Tabular deep-learning methods require embedding numerical and categorical input features into high-dimensional spaces before processing them. Existing methods deal with this heterogeneous nature of tabular data by employing separate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Boshko Koloski , Andrei Margeloiu , Xiangjian Jiang , Blaž Škrlj , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

Even though neural networks have been long deployed in applications involving tabular data, still existing neural architectures are not explainable by design. In this paper, we propose a new class of interpretable neural networks for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Arlind Kadra , Sebastian Pineda Arango , Josif Grabocka

Recent studies on multi-label image classification have focused on designing more complex architectures of deep neural networks such as the use of attention mechanisms and region proposal networks. Although performance gains have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Qian Wang , Ning Jia , Toby P. Breckon

Recent advancements in tabular deep learning have demonstrated exceptional practical performance, yet the field often lacks a clear understanding of why these techniques actually succeed. To address this gap, our paper highlights the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Nikolay Kartashev , Ivan Rubachev , Artem Babenko

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

While improvements in deep learning architectures have played a crucial role in improving the state of supervised and unsupervised learning in computer vision and natural language processing, neural network architecture choices for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Samarth Sinha , Homanga Bharadhwaj , Aravind Srinivas , Animesh Garg

Tabular data is prevalent in real-world machine learning applications, and new models for supervised learning of tabular data are frequently proposed. Comparative studies assessing the performance of models typically consist of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Andrej Tschalzev , Sascha Marton , Stefan Lüdtke , Christian Bartelt , Heiner Stuckenschmidt

This work presents a novel approach to tabular data prediction leveraging graph structure learning and graph neural networks. Despite the prevalence of tabular data in real-world applications, traditional deep learning methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Jay Chiehen Liao , Cheng-Te Li

In this report, we combine the idea of Wide ResNets and transfer learning to optimize the architecture of deep neural networks. The first improvement of the architecture is the use of all layers as information source for the last layer.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Wolfgang Fuhl

Relational databases, organized into tables connected by primary-foreign key relationships, are a common format for organizing data. Making predictions on relational data often involves transforming them into a flat tabular format through…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Veronica Lachi , Antonio Longa , Beatrice Bevilacqua , Bruno Lepri , Andrea Passerini , Bruno Ribeiro

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

In the context of classification problems, Deep Learning (DL) approaches represent state of art. Many DL approaches are based on variations of standard multi-layer feed-forward neural networks. These are also referred to as deep networks.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-21 Andrea Apicella , Francesco Isgrò , Roberto Prevete

All industries are trying to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on their existing big data which is available in so called tabular form, where each record is composed of a number of heterogeneous continuous and categorical columns…

With the rise of tabular foundation models alongside traditional models still performing well on many tasks, choosing the right model for a tabular dataset remains difficult. We investigate whether dataset meta-features can explain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Markus Herre , Andrej Tschalzev , Sascha Marton , Christian Bartelt

While deep learning has achieved remarkable success across many domains, it has historically underperformed on tabular learning tasks, which remain dominated by gradient boosting decision trees. However, recent advancements are paving the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Alan Arazi , Eilam Shapira , Roi Reichart

With the growing popularity of deep learning and foundation models for tabular data, the need for standardized and reliable benchmarks is higher than ever. However, current benchmarks are static. Their design is not updated even if flaws…

While interests in tabular deep learning has significantly grown, conventional tree-based models still outperform deep learning methods. To narrow this performance gap, we explore the innovative retrieval mechanism, a methodology that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Felix den Breejen , Sangmin Bae , Stephen Cha , Tae-Young Kim , Seoung Hyun Koh , Se-Young Yun

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

Recently, Transformer-like deep architectures have shown strong performance on tabular data problems. Unlike traditional models, e.g., MLP, these architectures map scalar values of numerical features to high-dimensional embeddings before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yury Gorishniy , Ivan Rubachev , Artem Babenko

On tabular data, a significant body of literature has shown that current deep learning (DL) models perform at best similarly to Gradient Boosted Decision Trees (GBDTs), while significantly underperforming them on outlier data. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Charlie Hou , Kiran Koshy Thekumparampil , Michael Shavlovsky , Giulia Fanti , Yesh Dattatreya , Sujay Sanghavi