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Tabular data is the foundation of the information age and has been extensively studied. Recent studies show that neural-based models are effective in learning contextual representation for tabular data. The learning of an effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Guang Liu , Jie Yang , Ledell Wu

For most natural language processing tasks, the dominant practice is to finetune large pretrained transformer models (e.g., BERT) using smaller downstream datasets. Despite the success of this approach, it remains unclear to what extent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Kundan Krishna , Saurabh Garg , Jeffrey P. Bigham , Zachary C. Lipton

Contextual embedding-based language models trained on large data sets, such as BERT and RoBERTa, provide strong performance across a wide range of tasks and are ubiquitous in modern NLP. It has been observed that fine-tuning these models on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Vin Sachidananda , Jason S. Kessler , Yi-an Lai

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

Prior-Data Fitted networks (PFNs) have been very successful in tabular contexts, handling prediction tasks in context. However, they are designed for single-task inference, meaning that predicting several target values within a context…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Cormac Cureton , Narges Armanfard

Graph foundation models have demonstrated remarkable adaptability across diverse downstream tasks through large-scale pretraining on graphs. However, existing implementations of the backbone model, graph transformers, are typically limited…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Jun-Liang Lin , Kamesh Madduri , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir

While foundation models have revolutionized such fields as natural language processing and computer vision, their potential in graph machine learning remains largely unexplored. One of the key challenges in designing graph foundation models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-24 Dmitry Eremeev , Gleb Bazhenov , Oleg Platonov , Artem Babenko , Liudmila Prokhorenkova

Credit default risk arises from complex interactions among borrowers, financial institutions, and transaction-level behaviors. While strong tabular models remain highly competitive in credit scoring, they may fail to explicitly capture…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Yvonne Yang , Eranki Vasistha

Task-agnostic forms of data augmentation have proven widely effective in computer vision, even on pretrained models. In NLP similar results are reported most commonly for low data regimes, non-pretrained models, or situationally for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Shayne Longpre , Yu Wang , Christopher DuBois

Federated Graph Learning (FGL) enables privacy-preserving, distributed training of graph neural networks without sharing raw data. Among its approaches, subgraph-FL has become the dominant paradigm, with most work focused on improving…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Zhengyu Wu , Boyang Pang , Xunkai Li , Yinlin Zhu , Daohan Su , Bowen Fan , Rong-Hua Li , Guoren Wang , Chenghu Zhou

Instead of using expensive manual annotations, researchers have proposed to train named entity recognition (NER) systems using heuristic labeling rules. However, devising labeling rules is challenging because it often requires a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Xinyan Zhao , Haibo Ding , Zhe Feng

Graph neural networks (GNNs) have shown advantages in graph-based analysis tasks. However, most existing methods have the homogeneity assumption and show poor performance on heterophilic graphs, where the linked nodes have dissimilar…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Tianhao Peng , Wenjun Wu , Haitao Yuan , Zhifeng Bao , Zhao Pengrui , Xin Yu , Xuetao Lin , Yu Liang , Yanjun Pu

Graph Neural Networks have demonstrated significant success in graph classification tasks, yet they often require substantial computational resources and struggle to capture global graph properties effectively. We introduce LightTopoGAT, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Ankit Sharma , Sayan Roy Gupta

Tabular data is the most abundant data type in the world, powering systems in finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and beyond. As tabular datasets grow and span multiple related targets, there is an increasing need to exploit shared task…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Dimitrios Sinodinos , Jack Yi Wei , Narges Armanfard

Tabular data have been playing a mostly important role in diverse real-world fields, such as healthcare, engineering, finance, etc. The recent success of deep learning has fostered many deep networks (e.g., Transformer, ResNet) based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hangting Ye , Peng Wang , Wei Fan , Xiaozhuang Song , He Zhao , Dandan Gun , Yi Chang

Recent advances in machine learning, specifically transformer architecture, have led to significant advancements in commercial domains. These powerful models have demonstrated superior capability to learn complex relationships and often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Matthew L. Olson , Shusen Liu , Jayaraman J. Thiagarajan , Bogdan Kustowski , Weng-Keen Wong , Rushil Anirudh

Both Transformer and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been employed in the domain of learning to rank (LTR). However, these approaches adhere to two distinct yet complementary problem formulations: ranking score regression based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Yuchen Li , Haoyi Xiong , Linghe Kong , Zeyi Sun , Hongyang Chen , Shuaiqiang Wang , Dawei Yin

Large language models (LLMs) perform remarkably well on tabular datasets in zero- and few-shot settings, since they can extract meaning from natural language column headers that describe features and labels. Similarly, TabPFN, a recent…

Tabular data is prevalent in many critical domains, yet it is often challenging to acquire in large quantities. This scarcity usually results in poor performance of machine learning models on such data. Data augmentation, a common strategy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Andrei Margeloiu , Adrián Bazaga , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Liò , Mateja Jamnik

Tabular data optimization methods aim to automatically find an optimal feature transformation process that generates high-value features and improves the performance of downstream machine learning tasks. Current frameworks for automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-12 Xiaohan Huang , Dongjie Wang , Zhiyuan Ning , Ziyue Qiao , Qingqing Long , Haowei Zhu , Min Wu , Yuanchun Zhou , Meng Xiao