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Predictive modeling over relational databases (RDBs) powers applications, yet remains challenging due to capturing both cross-table dependencies and complex feature interactions. Relational Deep Learning (RDL) methods automate feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Zhikai Chen , Han Xie , Jian Zhang , Jiliang Tang , Xiang Song , Huzefa Rangwala

Serving deep learning (DL) models on relational data has become a critical requirement across diverse commercial and scientific domains, sparking growing interest recently. In this visionary paper, we embark on a comprehensive exploration…

Relational data stored in RDBMS is foundational to many real-world applications across domains such as e-commerce, finance, and sociality. While deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved strong performance on tabular data with a single…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Lingze Zeng , Shaofeng Cai , Changshuo Liu , Zhongle Xie , Yuncheng Wu , Beng Chin Ooi

Relational deep learning (RDL) settles among the most exciting advances in machine learning for relational databases, leveraging the representational power of message passing graph neural networks (GNNs) to derive useful knowledge and run…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Alejandro Ariza-Casabona , Nikos Kanakaris , Daniele Malitesta

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) has proven effective in integrating knowledge into large language models (LLMs). However, conventional RAGs struggle to capture complex relationships between pieces of knowledge, limiting their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Linhao Luo , Zicheng Zhao , Gholamreza Haffari , Dinh Phung , Chen Gong , Shirui Pan

Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) has shown a dramatic improvement in decision-making and automated control problems. Consequently, DRL represents a promising technique to efficiently solve many relevant optimization problems (e.g.,…

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In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable generalization capabilities across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Similarly, graph foundation models (GFMs) have emerged as a promising direction…

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How to properly model graphs is a long-existing and important problem in NLP area, where several popular types of graphs are knowledge graphs, semantic graphs and dependency graphs. Comparing with other data structures, such as sequences…

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Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has empowered a variety of artificial intelligence fields, including pattern recognition, robotics, recommendation-systems, and gaming. Similarly, graph neural networks (GNN) have also demonstrated their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Sai Munikoti , Deepesh Agarwal , Laya Das , Mahantesh Halappanavar , Balasubramaniam Natarajan

Although RDBs store vast amounts of rich, informative data spread across interconnected tables, the progress of predictive machine learning models as applied to such tasks arguably falls well behind advances in other domains such as…

Knowledge graphs enable a wide variety of applications, including question answering and information retrieval. Despite the great effort invested in their creation and maintenance, even the largest (e.g., Yago, DBPedia or Wikidata) remain…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-10-30 Michael Schlichtkrull , Thomas N. Kipf , Peter Bloem , Rianne van den Berg , Ivan Titov , Max Welling

Relational databases (RDBs) remain the cornerstone of modern data systems and support diverse predictive tasks. Recent relational deep learning (RDL) methods enable end-to-end prediction by converting RDBs into graphs, where rows are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Jinyu Yang , Cheng Yang , Junze Chen , Zedi Liu , Muhan Zhang , Hanyang Peng , Chuan Shi

Graph Foundation Models (GFMs) have emerged as a frontier in graph learning, which are expected to deliver transferable representations across diverse tasks. However, GFMs remain constrained by in-memory bottlenecks: they attempt to encode…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haonan Yuan , Qingyun Sun , Jiacheng Tao , Xingcheng Fu , Jianxin Li

Recently, significant attention has been given to the idea of viewing relational databases as heterogeneous graphs, enabling the application of graph neural network (GNN) technology for predictive tasks. However, existing GNN methods…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Francesco Ferrini , Antonio Longa , Andrea Passerini , Manfred Jaeger

Knowledge graph reasoning in the fully-inductive setting, where both entities and relations at test time are unseen during training, remains an open challenge. In this work, we introduce GraphOracle, a novel framework that achieves robust…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Enjun Du , Siyi Liu , Yongqi Zhang

In this survey, we dive into Tabular Data Learning (TDL) using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), a domain where deep learning-based approaches have increasingly shown superior performance in both classification and regression tasks compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Cheng-Te Li , Yu-Che Tsai , Chih-Yao Chen , Jay Chiehen Liao

Tabular data, widely used in industries like healthcare, finance, and transportation, presents unique challenges for deep learning due to its heterogeneous nature and lack of spatial structure. This survey reviews the evolution of deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Shriyank Somvanshi , Subasish Das , Syed Aaqib Javed , Gian Antariksa , Ahmed Hossain

The increasing demand for deep learning-based foundation models has highlighted the importance of efficient data retrieval mechanisms. Neural graph databases (NGDBs) offer a compelling solution, leveraging neural spaces to store and query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Qi Hu , Weifeng Jiang , Haoran Li , Zihao Wang , Jiaxin Bai , Qianren Mao , Yangqiu Song , Lixin Fan , Jianxin Li

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has established itself as the standard paradigm for grounding Large Language Models (LLMs) in domain-specific, up-to-date data. However, the prevailing architecture for RAG has evolved into a complex,…

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