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Tabular neural network (NN) has attracted remarkable attentions and its recent advances have gradually narrowed the performance gap with respect to tree-based models on many public datasets. While the mainstreams focus on calibrating NN to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Xuan Li , Yun Wang , Bo Li

Considerable research attention has been paid to table detection by developing not only rule-based approaches reliant on hand-crafted heuristics but also deep learning approaches. Although recent studies successfully perform table detection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Hyebin Kwon , Joungbin An , Dongwoo Lee , Won-Yong Shin

In this paper, we investigate the in-context learning ability of retrieval-augmented encoder-decoder language models. We first conduct a comprehensive analysis of existing models and identify their limitations in in-context learning,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Jie Huang , Wei Ping , Peng Xu , Mohammad Shoeybi , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang , Bryan Catanzaro

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

Anomaly detection is critical in domains such as cybersecurity and finance, especially when working with large-scale tabular data. Yet, unsupervised anomaly detection-where no labeled anomalies are available-remains challenging because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Spencer King , Zhilu Zhang , Ruofan Yu , Baris Coskun , Wei Ding , Qian Cui

Performance of neural network models relies on the availability of large datasets with minimal levels of uncertainty. Transfer Learning (TL) models have been proposed to resolve the issue of small dataset size by letting the model train on…

Despite progress, deep neural networks still suffer performance declines under distribution shifts between training and test domains, leading to a substantial decrease in Quality of Experience (QoE) for applications. Existing test-time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Qinting Jiang , Chuyang Ye , Dongyan Wei , Bingli Wang , Yuan Xue , Jingyan Jiang , Zhi Wang

Recent shifts in the space of large language model (LLM) research have shown an increasing focus on novel architectures to compete with prototypical Transformer-based models that have long dominated this space. Linear recurrent models have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Xinyu Wang , Linrui Ma , Jerry Huang , Peng Lu , Prasanna Parthasarathi , Xiao-Wen Chang , Boxing Chen , Yufei Cui

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…

Recent years have witnessed increasing interests in prompt-based learning in which models can be trained on only a few annotated instances, making them suitable in low-resource settings. When using prompt-based learning for text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-11 Hongjing Li , Hanqi Yan , Yanran Li , Li Qian , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Retrieving relevant contexts from a large corpus is a crucial step for tasks such as open-domain question answering and fact checking. Although neural retrieval outperforms traditional methods like tf-idf and BM25, its performance degrades…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Jean Maillard , Vladimir Karpukhin , Fabio Petroni , Wen-tau Yih , Barlas Oğuz , Veselin Stoyanov , Gargi Ghosh

Predictive modeling on tabular data is the cornerstone of many real-world applications. Although gradient boosting machines and some recent deep models achieve strong performance on tabular data, they often lack interpretability. On the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Tommy Xu , Zhitian Zhang , Xiangyu Sun , Lauren Kelly Zung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Greg Mori

Representation learning stands as one of the critical machine learning techniques across various domains. Through the acquisition of high-quality features, pre-trained embeddings significantly reduce input space redundancy, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Suiyao Chen , Jing Wu , Naira Hovakimyan , Handong Yao

Deep learning has made revolutionary advances to diverse applications in the presence of large-scale labeled datasets. However, it is prohibitively time-costly and labor-expensive to collect sufficient labeled data in most realistic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Ximei Wang , Jinghan Gao , Mingsheng Long , Jianmin Wang

Recent advances in foundation models have emphasized the need to align pre-trained models with specialized domains using small, curated datasets. Studies on these foundation models underscore the importance of low-data training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Zihang Liu , Yuanzhe Hu , Tianyu Pang , Yefan Zhou , Pu Ren , Yaoqing Yang

Transfer learning based on full fine-tuning (FFT) of the pre-trained encoder and task-specific decoder becomes increasingly complex as deep models grow exponentially. Parameter efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) approaches using adapters…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Hayeon Jo , Hyesong Choi , Minhee Cho , Dongbo Min

We present symbol tuning - finetuning language models on in-context input-label pairs where natural language labels (e.g., "positive/negative sentiment") are replaced with arbitrary symbols (e.g., "foo/bar"). Symbol tuning leverages the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Jerry Wei , Le Hou , Andrew Lampinen , Xiangning Chen , Da Huang , Yi Tay , Xinyun Chen , Yifeng Lu , Denny Zhou , Tengyu Ma , Quoc V. Le

Nowadays, machine learning plays a key role in developing plenty of applications, e.g., smart homes, smart medical assistance, and autonomous driving. A major challenge of these applications is preserving high quality of the training and…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Daniel Del Gaudio , Tim Schubert , Mohamed Abdelaal

Recent advances in natural language processing have leveraged instruction tuning to enhance Large Language Models (LLMs) for table-related tasks. However, previous works train different base models with different training data, lacking an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Naihao Deng , Sheng Zhang , Henghui Zhu , Shuaichen Chang , Jiani Zhang , Alexander Hanbo Li , Chung-Wei Hang , Hideo Kobayashi , Yiqun Hu , Patrick Ng

Tabular data underpins most high-value prediction problems in science and industry, and TabPFN has driven the foundation model revolution for this modality. Designed with feedback from our users, TabPFN-3 builds on this foundation to scale…