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Tables are widely used in documents because of their compact and structured representation of information. In particular, in scientific papers, tables can sum up novel discoveries and summarize experimental results, making the research…

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Tabular representation learning has recently gained a lot of attention. However, existing approaches only learn a representation from a single table, and thus ignore the potential to learn from the full structure of relational databases,…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Liane Vogel , Benjamin Hilprecht , Carsten Binnig

Tables contain valuable knowledge in a structured form. We employ neural language modeling approaches to embed tabular data into vector spaces. Specifically, we consider different table elements, such caption, column headings, and cells,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Li Deng , Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Generative modelling has become the standard approach for synthesising tabular data. However, different use cases demand synthetic data to comply with different requirements to be useful in practice. In this survey, we review deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

The first phase of table recognition is to detect the tabular area in a document. Subsequently, the tabular structures are recognized in the second phase in order to extract information from the respective cells. Table detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Khurram Azeem Hashmi , Marcus Liwicki , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Adnan Afzal , Muhammad Ahtsham Afzal , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Tabular data synthesis is crucial for addressing privacy and security concerns in industries reliant on tabular data. While recent advancements adopt large language models (LLMs) for realistic tabular data generation, their long training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Lydia Chen

Tabular data is one of the most common data sources in machine learning. Although a wide range of classical methods demonstrate practical utilities in this field, deep learning methods on tabular data are becoming promising alternatives due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Si-Yang Liu , Hao-Run Cai , Qi-Le Zhou , Han-Jia Ye

Tabular data (or tables) are the most widely used data format in machine learning (ML). However, ML models often assume the table structure keeps fixed in training and testing. Before ML modeling, heavy data cleaning is required to merge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Tabular foundation models aim to learn universal representations of tabular data that transfer across tasks and domains, enabling applications such as table retrieval, semantic search and table-based prediction. Despite the growing number…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Liane Vogel , Kavitha Srinivas , Niharika D'Souza , Sola Shirai , Oktie Hassanzadeh , Horst Samulowitz

Tabular datasets are ubiquitous in data science applications. Given their importance, it seems natural to apply state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms in order to fully unlock their potential. Here we propose neural network models that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-15 Inkit Padhi , Yair Schiff , Igor Melnyk , Mattia Rigotti , Youssef Mroueh , Pierre Dognin , Jerret Ross , Ravi Nair , Erik Altman

Tabular data is a fundamental form of data structure. The evolution of table analysis tools reflects humanity's continuous progress in data acquisition, management, and processing. The dynamic changes in table columns arise from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinda Chen , Zhen Xing , Hanyu Zhang , Weimin Tan , Bo Yan

User-driven privacy allows individuals to control whether and at what granularity their data is shared, leading to datasets that mix original, generalized, and missing values within the same records and attributes. While such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Lucas Lange , Adrian Böttinger , Victor Christen , Anushka Vidanage , Peter Christen , Erhard Rahm

Tabular data have been playing a mostly important role in diverse real-world fields, such as healthcare, engineering, finance, etc. With the recent success of deep learning, many tabular machine learning (ML) methods based on deep networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Hangting Ye , Wei Fan , Xiaozhuang Song , Shun Zheng , He Zhao , Dandan Guo , Yi Chang

Machine learning (ML) on tabular data is ubiquitous, yet obtaining abundant high-quality tabular data for model training remains a significant obstacle. Numerous works have focused on tabular data augmentation (TDA) to enhance the original…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Lingxi Cui , Huan Li , Ke Chen , Lidan Shou , Gang Chen

We have described a novel approach for training tabular data using the TabTransformer model with self-supervised learning. Traditional machine learning models for tabular data, such as GBDT are being widely used though our paper examines…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Tirth Kiranbhai Vyas

We address the problem of learning a distributed representation of entities in a relational database using a low-dimensional embedding. Low-dimensional embeddings aim to encapsulate a concise vector representation for an underlying dataset…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Siddhant Arora , Srikanta Bedathur

Despite the prevalence and significance of tabular data across numerous industries and fields, it has been relatively underexplored in the realm of deep learning. Even today, neural networks are often overshadowed by techniques such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Andreas Voskou , Charalambos Christoforou , Sotirios Chatzis

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

Tabular data are ubiquitous for the widespread applications of tables and hence have attracted the attention of researchers to extract underlying information. One of the critical problems in mining tabular data is how to understand their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Lun Du , Fei Gao , Xu Chen , Ran Jia , Junshan Wang , Jiang Zhang , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

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