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Although Transformers-based architectures excel at processing textual information, their naive adaptation for tabular data often involves flattening the table structure. This simplification can lead to the loss of essential…

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Tabular data in digital documents is widely used to express compact and important information for readers. However, it is challenging to parse tables from unstructured digital documents, such as PDFs and images, into machine-readable format…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Bin Xiao , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Ala Abu Alkheir

Traditional machine learning assumes samples in tabular data to be independent and identically distributed (i.i.d). This assumption may miss useful information within and between sample relationships in representation learning. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Shourav B. Rabbani , Manar D. Samad

Tables are a powerful and popular tool for organizing and manipulating data. A vast number of tables can be found on the Web, which represents a valuable knowledge resource. The objective of this survey is to synthesize and present two…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Shuo Zhang , Krisztian Balog

Tabular data plays a critical role in real-world financial scenarios. Traditionally, tree models have dominated in handling tabular data. However, financial datasets in the industry often encounter some challenges, such as data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Mingming Zhang , Jiahao Hu , Pengfei Shi , Ningtao Wang , Ruizhe Gao , Guandong Sun , Feng Zhao , Yulin kang , Xing Fu , Weiqiang Wang , Junbo Zhao

Despite the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, deep learning has yet to achieve much success with tabular data due to heterogeneous feature space and limited sample sizes without viable transfer learning. The new era of generative AI,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Shourav B. Rabbani , Ibna Kowsar , Manar D. Samad

The modern data analyst must cope with data encoded in various forms, vectors, matrices, strings, graphs, or more. Consequently, statistical and machine learning models tailored to different data encodings are important. We focus on data…

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With the widespread use of mobile phones and scanners to photograph and upload documents, the need for extracting the information trapped in unstructured document images such as retail receipts, insurance claim forms and financial invoices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Shubham Paliwal , Vishwanath D , Rohit Rahul , Monika Sharma , Lovekesh Vig

Deep learning architectures for supervised learning on tabular data range from simple multilayer perceptrons (MLP) to sophisticated Transformers and retrieval-augmented methods. This study highlights a major, yet so far overlooked…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yury Gorishniy , Akim Kotelnikov , Artem Babenko

We perform a comparative analysis of transformer-based models designed for modeling tabular data, specifically on an industry-scale dataset. While earlier studies demonstrated promising outcomes on smaller public or synthetic datasets, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Usneek Singh , Piyush Arora , Shamika Ganesan , Mohit Kumar , Siddhant Kulkarni , Salil R. Joshi

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…

Data preparation, also called data wrangling, is considered one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps when performing analytics or building machine learning models. Preparing data typically involves collecting and merging data from…

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Time series analysis is a field of data science which is interested in analyzing sequences of numerical values ordered in time. Time series are particularly interesting because they allow us to visualize and understand the evolution of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-02 Hassan Ismail Fawaz

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Structured, or tabular, data is the most common format in data science. While deep learning models have proven formidable in learning from unstructured data such as images or speech, they are less accurate than simpler approaches when…

Diffusion models have been the predominant generative model for tabular data generation. However, they face the conundrum of modeling under a separate versus a unified data representation. The former encounters the challenge of jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jacob Si , Zijing Ou , Mike Qu , Zhengrui Xiang , Yingzhen Li

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

A table arranging data in rows and columns is a very effective data structure, which has been widely used in business and scientific research. Considering large-scale tabular data in online and offline documents, automatic table recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Wenyuan Xue , Baosheng Yu , Wen Wang , Dacheng Tao , Qingyong Li

Machine learning for tabular data remains constrained by poor schema generalization, a challenge rooted in the lack of semantic understanding of structured variables. This challenge is particularly acute in domains like clinical medicine,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Hongxi Mao , Wei Zhou , Mengting Jia , Tao Fang , Huan Gao , Bin Zhang , Shangyang Li

Graphs arise naturally in many real-world applications including social networks, recommender systems, ontologies, biology, and computational finance. Traditionally, machine learning models for graphs have been mostly designed for static…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Seyed Mehran Kazemi , Rishab Goel , Kshitij Jain , Ivan Kobyzev , Akshay Sethi , Peter Forsyth , Pascal Poupart