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Tabular data remains one of the most prevalent data types across a wide range of real-world applications, yet effective representation learning for this domain poses unique challenges due to its irregular patterns, heterogeneous feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Weijieying Ren , Tianxiang Zhao , Yuqing Huang , Vasant Honavar

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

Tabular data, widely used in industries like healthcare, finance, and transportation, presents unique challenges for deep learning due to its heterogeneous nature and lack of spatial structure. This survey reviews the evolution of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shriyank Somvanshi , Subasish Das , Syed Aaqib Javed , Gian Antariksa , Ahmed Hossain

Accurate predictions on tabular data rely on capturing complex, dataset-specific feature interactions. Attention-based methods and graph neural networks, referred to as graph-based tabular deep learning (GTDL), aim to improve predictions by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Elias Dubbeldam , Reza Mohammadi , Marit Schoonhoven , S. Ilker Birbil

Tabular data, structured as rows and columns, is among the most prevalent data types in machine learning classification and regression applications. Models for learning from tabular data have continuously evolved, with Deep Neural Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Jun-Peng Jiang , Si-Yang Liu , Hao-Run Cai , Qile Zhou , Han-Jia Ye

The widespread enthusiasm for deep learning has recently expanded into the domain of tabular data. Recognizing that the advancement in deep tabular methods is often inspired by classical methods, e.g., integration of nearest neighbors into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Han-Jia Ye , Huai-Hong Yin , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

Inference from tabular data, collections of continuous and categorical variables organized into matrices, is a foundation for modern technology and science. Yet, in contrast to the explosive changes in the rest of AI, the best practice for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Daniel Beaglehole , David Holzmüller , Adityanarayanan Radhakrishnan , Mikhail Belkin

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

We propose a novel high-performance and interpretable canonical deep tabular data learning architecture, TabNet. TabNet uses sequential attention to choose which features to reason from at each decision step, enabling interpretability and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Sercan O. Arik , Tomas Pfister

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

Tabular data are fundamental in common machine learning applications, ranging from finance to genomics and healthcare. This paper focuses on tabular regression tasks, a field where deep learning (DL) methods are not consistently superior to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Hong-Wei Wu , Wei-Yao Wang , Kuang-Da Wang , Wen-Chih Peng

Foundation models are an emerging research direction in tabular deep learning. Notably, TabPFNv2 recently claimed superior performance over traditional GBDT-based methods on small-scale datasets using an in-context learning paradigm, which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ivan Rubachev , Akim Kotelnikov , Nikolay Kartashev , Artem Babenko

Pre-training is prevalent in deep learning for vision and text data, leveraging knowledge from other datasets to enhance downstream tasks. However, for tabular data, the inherent heterogeneity in attribute and label spaces across datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Han-Jia Ye , Qi-Le Zhou , Huai-Hong Yin , De-Chuan Zhan , Wei-Lun Chao

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

There is an increasing interest in the application of deep learning architectures to tabular data. One of the state-of-the-art solutions is TabTransformer which incorporates an attention mechanism to better track relationships between…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Radostin Cholakov , Todor Kolev

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are powerful models that have been successful in various graph representation learning tasks. Whereas gradient boosted decision trees (GBDT) often outperform other machine learning methods when faced with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Sergei Ivanov , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Handling heterogeneous data in tabular datasets poses a significant challenge for deep learning models. While attention-based architectures and self-supervised learning have achieved notable success, their application to tabular data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Anay Majee , Maria Xenochristou , Wei-Peng Chen

Table detection within document images is a crucial task in document processing, involving the identification and localization of tables. Recent strides in deep learning have substantially improved the accuracy of this task, but it still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Tahira Shehzadi , Shalini Sarode , Didier Stricker , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal

Tabular data is a pervasive modality spanning a wide range of domains, and the inherent diversity poses a considerable challenge for deep learning. Recent advancements using transformer-based in-context learning have shown promise on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Valentin Thomas , Junwei Ma , Rasa Hosseinzadeh , Keyvan Golestan , Guangwei Yu , Maksims Volkovs , Anthony Caterini

Tabular data is prevalent across diverse domains in machine learning. With the rapid progress of deep tabular prediction methods, especially pretrained (foundation) models, there is a growing need to evaluate these methods systematically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Han-Jia Ye , Si-Yang Liu , Hao-Run Cai , Qi-Le Zhou , De-Chuan Zhan