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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…

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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…

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Despite recent progress in time-series foundation models, challenges persist in improving representation learning and adapting to diverse downstream tasks. We introduce a General Time-series Model (GTM), which advances representation…

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Recent text and image foundation models are incredibly impressive, and these models are attracting an ever-increasing portion of research resources. In this position piece we aim to shift the ML research community's priorities ever so…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Boris van Breugel , Mihaela van der Schaar

We propose a new framework for zero-shot generation of synthetic tabular data. Using the large language model (LLM) GPT-4o and plain-language prompting, we demonstrate the ability to generate high-fidelity tabular data without task-specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Austin A. Barr , Robert Rozman , Eddie Guo

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

Tabular data serves as the backbone of modern data analysis and scientific research. While Large Language Models (LLMs) fine-tuned via Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) have significantly improved natural language interaction with such…

Tabular data is among the oldest and most ubiquitous forms of data. However, the generation of synthetic samples with the original data's characteristics remains a significant challenge for tabular data. While many generative models from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Vadim Borisov , Kathrin Seßler , Tobias Leemann , Martin Pawelczyk , Gjergji Kasneci

Tabular data high-stakes critical decision-making in domains such as finance, healthcare, and scientific discovery. Yet, learning effectively from tabular data in few-shot settings, where labeled examples are scarce, remains a fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Zhihan Yang , Jiaqi Wei , Xiang Zhang , Haoyu Dong , Yiwen Wang , Xiaoke Guo , Pengkun Zhang , Yiwei Xu , Chenyu You

Tabular data represent one of the most prevalent data formats in applied machine learning, largely because they accommodate a broad spectrum of real-world problems. Existing literature has studied many of the shortcomings of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Guri Zabërgja , Arlind Kadra , Christian M. M. Frey , Josif Grabocka

In the era of big data, access to abundant data is crucial for driving research forward. However, such data is often inaccessible due to privacy concerns or high costs, particularly in healthcare domain. Generating synthetic (tabular) data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yaobin Ling , Xiaoqian Jiang , Yejin Kim

Tabular data is prevalent across various industries, necessitating significant time and effort for users to understand and manipulate for their information-seeking purposes. The advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Yilun Zhao , Haowei Zhang , Shengyun Si , Linyong Nan , Xiangru Tang , Arman Cohan

Recent breakthroughs in large language models (LLMs) have opened the door to in-depth investigation of their potential in tabular data modeling. However, effectively utilizing advanced LLMs in few-shot and even zero-shot scenarios is still…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Peng Wang , Dongsheng Wang , He Zhao , Hangting Ye , Dandan Guo , Yi Chang

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 -- structured, heterogeneous, spreadsheet-style data with rows and columns -- is widely used in practice across many domains. However, while recent foundation models have reduced the need for developing task-specific datasets…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Josh Gardner , Juan C. Perdomo , Ludwig Schmidt

Recent development in large language models (LLMs) has demonstrated impressive domain proficiency on unstructured textual or multi-modal tasks. However, despite with intrinsic world knowledge, their application on structured tabular data…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-03 Jiahuan Yan , Jintai Chen , Chaowen Hu , Bo Zheng , Yaojun Hu , Jimeng Sun , Jian Wu

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have exhibited remarkable emergent capabilities through extensive pre-training, they still face critical limitations in generalizing to specialized domains and handling diverse linguistic variations, known…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jinwu Hu , Zhitian Zhang , Guohao Chen , Xutao Wen , Chao Shuai , Wei Luo , Bin Xiao , Yuanqing Li , Mingkui Tan

Transfer learning on tabular data is challenging due to disparate feature spaces across domains, in contrast to the homogeneous structures of image and text. Large language models (LLMs) offer a knowledge base to improve the limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ibna Kowsar , Kazi F. Akhter , Manar D. Samad

Large Language Models (LLM) have brought numerous of new applications to Machine Learning (ML). In the context of tabular data (TD), recent studies show that TabLLM is a very powerful mechanism for few-shot-learning (FSL) applications, even…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Carlos Huertas

Tabular data is one of the most widely used data formats across various domains such as bioinformatics, healthcare, and marketing. As artificial intelligence moves towards a data-centric perspective, improving data quality is essential for…