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As Artificial Intelligence (AI) integrates deeper into diverse sectors, the quest for powerful models has intensified. While significant strides have been made in boosting model capabilities and their applicability across domains, a glaring…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Shiyun Wa , Xinai Lu , Minjuan Wang

Tabular data is hard to acquire and is subject to missing values. This paper introduces a novel approach for generating and imputing mixed-type (continuous and categorical) tabular data utilizing score-based diffusion and conditional flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Alexia Jolicoeur-Martineau , Kilian Fatras , Tal Kachman

Understanding the semantics of tables at scale is crucial for tasks like data integration, preparation, and search. Table understanding methods aim at detecting a table's topic, semantic column types, column relations, or entities. With the…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Madelon Hulsebos , Sneha Gathani , James Gale , Isil Dillig , Paul Groth , Çağatay Demiralp

Table structure recognition aims to parse tables in unstructured data into machine-understandable formats. Recent methods address this problem through a two-stage process or optimized one-stage approaches. However, these methods either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Anyi Xiao , Cihui Yang

Probabilistic graphical models combine the graph theory and probability theory to give a multivariate statistical modeling. They provide a unified description of uncertainty using probability and complexity using the graphical model.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2011-11-30 Yang Zhou

Rock discontinuities critically govern the mechanical behavior and stability of rock masses. Their internal distributions remain largely unobservable and are typically inferred from surface-exposed discontinuities using generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Han Meng , Gang Mei , Hong Tian , Nengxiong Xu , Jianbing Peng

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Raphaël Mouravieff , Benjamin Piwowarski , Sylvain Lamprier

Synthetic tabular data is used for privacy-preserving data sharing and data-driven model development. Its effectiveness, however, depends heavily on the used Tabular Data Synthesis (TDS) tool. Recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Maria F. Davila R , Azizjon Turaev , Wolfram Wingerath

Data in tabular format is frequently occurring in real-world applications. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have recently been extended to effectively handle such data, allowing feature interactions to be captured through representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Amr Alkhatib , Sofiane Ennadir , Henrik Boström , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Foundation models for tabular data, such as the Tabular Prior-data Fitted Network (TabPFN), are pre-trained on a massive number of synthetic datasets generated by structural causal models (SCM). They leverage in-context learning to offer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Qinyi Liu , Mohammad Khalil , Naman Goel

Diffusion models have emerged as a robust framework for various generative tasks, including tabular data synthesis. However, current tabular diffusion models tend to inherit bias in the training dataset and generate biased synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeyu Yang , Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Khadija Zanna , Xiaoxue Yang , Akane Sano

Table structure recognition (TSR) holds widespread practical importance by parsing tabular images into structured representations, yet encounters significant challenges when processing complex layouts involving merged or empty cells.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Boming Chen , Zining Wang , Zhentao Guo , Jianqiang Liu , Chen Duan , Yu Gu , Kai zhou , Pengfei Yan

Table structure recognition is a crucial part of document image analysis domain. Its difficulty lies in the need to parse the physical coordinates and logical indices of each cell at the same time. However, the existing methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-01 Zengyuan Guo , Yuechen Yu , Pengyuan Lv , Chengquan Zhang , Haojie Li , Zhihui Wang , Kun Yao , Jingtuo Liu , Jingdong Wang

Table annotation is crucial for making web and enterprise tables usable in downstream NLP applications. Unlike textual data where learning semantically rich token or sentence embeddings often suffice, tables are structured combinations of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ehsan Hoseinzade , Ke Wang , Anandharaju Durai Raju

Variational autoencoders (VAEs) and other generative methods have garnered growing interest not just for their generative properties but also for the ability to dis-entangle a low-dimensional latent variable space. However, few existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sunay Bhat , Jeffrey Jiang , Omead Pooladzandi , Gregory Pottie

Estimating how a treatment affects units individually, known as heterogeneous treatment effect (HTE) estimation, is an essential part of decision-making and policy implementation. The accumulation of large amounts of data in many domains,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Christopher Tran , Elena Zheleva

Tabular data dominates data science but poses challenges for generative models, especially when the data is limited or sensitive. We present a novel approach to generating synthetic tabular data based on the principle of maximum entropy --…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Miao Li , Phuc Nguyen , Christopher Tam , Alexandra Morgan , Kenneth Ge , Rahul Bansal , Linzi Yu , Rima Arnaout , Ramy Arnaout

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) have been shown to be powerful tools for generating tabular data, as they have been increasingly able to capture the complex distributions that characterize them. However, to generate realistic synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Salijona Dyrmishi , Maxime Cordy , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Eleonora Giunchiglia

Graphical models can represent a multivariate distribution in a convenient and accessible form as a graph. Causal models can be viewed as a special class of graphical models that not only represent the distribution of the observed system…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-06-29 Christina Heinze-Deml , Marloes H. Maathuis , Nicolai Meinshausen

Existing methods for differentiable structure learning in discrete data typically assume that the data are generated from specific structural equation models. However, these assumptions may not align with the true data-generating process,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Chang Deng , Bryon Aragam