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Tabular foundation models such as TabPFN and TabICL already produce full predictive distributions, yet prevailing regression benchmarks evaluate them almost exclusively via point-estimate metrics (RMSE, $R^2$). This discards precisely the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Jonas Landsgesell , Pascal Knoll , Tizian Wenzel

Generative tabular augmentation is appealing in data-scarce domains, yet the prevailing focus on distributional fidelity does not reliably translate into better downstream models. We formalize a fidelity-utility gap: common generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zheyu Zhang , Shuo Yang , Bardh Prenkaj , Gjergji Kasneci

Conditional density estimation (CDE) - recovering the full conditional distribution of a response given tabular covariates - is essential in settings with heteroscedasticity, multimodality, or asymmetric uncertainty. Recent tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Rafael Izbicki , Pedro L. C. Rodrigues

In scientific fields such as quantum computing, physics, chemistry, and machine learning, high dimensional data are typically represented using sparse tensors. Tensor contraction is a popular operation on tensors to exploit meaning or alter…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Andrew Ensinger , Gabriel Kulp , Victor Agostinelli , Dennis Lyakhov , Lizhong Chen

Identifying the parameters of a non-linear model that best explain observed data is a core task across scientific fields. When such models rely on complex simulators, evaluating the likelihood is typically intractable, making traditional…

Task oriented language understanding in dialog systems is often modeled using intents (task of a query) and slots (parameters for that task). Intent detection and slot tagging are, in turn, modeled using sentence classification and word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-14 Arash Einolghozati , Sonal Gupta , Mrinal Mohit , Rushin Shah

Instrumental variable (IV) and control function (CF) methods are powerful tools for causal effect estimation in the presence of unmeasured confounding, yet most existing approaches target only mean effects and/or demand substantial fitting…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-05-08 Geping Chen , Chunlin Li , Tianzhong Yang , Zhengyuan Zhu , Jing Zhou

We study prediction of future outcomes with supervised models that use privileged information during learning. The privileged information comprises samples of time series observed between the baseline time of prediction and the future…

Spreadsheet table detection is the task of detecting all tables on a given sheet and locating their respective ranges. Automatic table detection is a key enabling technique and an initial step in spreadsheet data intelligence. However, the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Haoyu Dong , Shijie Liu , Shi Han , Zhouyu Fu , Dongmei Zhang

Tables condense key transactional and administrative information into compact layouts, but practical extraction requires more than text recognition: systems must also recover structure (rows, columns, merged cells, headers) and interpret…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Laziz Hamdi , Amine Tamasna , Thierry Paquet

Active learning (AL) reduces labeling cost by querying informative samples, but in tabular settings its cold-start gains are often limited because uncertainty estimates are unreliable when models are trained on very few labels. Tabular…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Wilailuck Treerath , Fabrizio Pittorino

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

The need for accurate SQL progress estimation in the context of decision support administration has led to a number of techniques proposed for this task. Unfortunately, no single one of these progress estimators behaves robustly across the…

Databases · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Arnd Christian König , Bolin Ding , Surajit Chaudhuri , Vivek Narasayya

Tabular data analysis is crucial in many scenarios, yet efficiently identifying the most relevant data analysis queries and results for a new table remains a significant challenge. The complexity of tabular data, diverse analytical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Deyin Yi , Yihao Liu , Lang Cao , Mengyu Zhou , Haoyu Dong , Shi Han , Dongmei Zhang

We propose selective debiasing -- an inference-time safety mechanism designed to enhance the overall model quality in terms of prediction performance and fairness, especially in scenarios where retraining the model is impractical. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Gleb Kuzmin , Neemesh Yadav , Ivan Smirnov , Timothy Baldwin , Artem Shelmanov

Query-focused table summarization requires complex reasoning, often approached through step-by-step natural language (NL) plans. However, NL plans are inherently ambiguous and lack structure, limiting their conversion into executable…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Weijia Zhang , Songgaojun Deng , Evangelos Kanoulas

Recently, the iterative approach named linear tabling has received considerable attention because of its simplicity, ease of implementation, and good space efficiency. Linear tabling is a framework from which different methods can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2007-05-25 Neng-Fa Zhou , Taisuke Sato , Yi-Dong Shen

Interpretability and explainability are among the most important challenges of modern artificial intelligence, being mentioned even in various legislative sources. In this article, we develop a method for extracting immediately human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Reijo Jaakkola , Tomi Janhunen , Antti Kuusisto , Masood Feyzbakhsh Rankooh , Miikka Vilander

This work presents a sparse-attention Transformer architecture for modeling documents that contain large tables. Tables are ubiquitous on the web, and are rich in information. However, more than 20% of relational tables on the web have 20…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-10 Julian Martin Eisenschlos , Maharshi Gor , Thomas Müller , William W. Cohen

Selective classifiers improve model reliability by abstaining on inputs the model deems uncertain. However, few practical approaches achieve the gold-standard performance of a perfect-ordering oracle that accepts examples exactly in order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Stephan Rabanser , Nicolas Papernot