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We introduce Griffin, the first foundation model attemptation designed specifically for Relational Databases (RDBs). Unlike previous smaller models focused on single RDB tasks, Griffin unifies the data encoder and task decoder to handle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Yanbo Wang , Xiyuan Wang , Quan Gan , Minjie Wang , Qibin Yang , David Wipf , Muhan Zhang

Benefiting from high-quality datasets and standardized evaluation metrics, machine learning (ML) has achieved sustained progress and widespread applications. However, while applying machine learning to relational databases (RDBs), the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Zizhao Zhang , Yi Yang , Lutong Zou , He Wen , Tao Feng , Jiaxuan You

In this paper, we propose Graph Retention Networks (GRNs) as a unified architecture for deep learning on dynamic graphs. The GRN extends the concept of retention into dynamic graph data as graph retention, equipping the model with three key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Qian Chang , Xia Li , Xiufeng Cheng , Runsong Jia , Jinqing Yang , Guoping Hu , Ciprian Doru Giurcaneanu

In domains such as healthcare, finance, and e-commerce, the temporal dynamics of relational data emerge from complex interactions-such as those between patients and providers, or users and products across diverse categories. To be broadly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Divyansha Lachi , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Joe Meyer , Vinam Arora , Tom Palczewski , Eva L. Dyer

Relational multi-table data is common in domains such as e-commerce, healthcare, and scientific research, and can be naturally represented as heterogeneous temporal graphs with multi-modal node attributes. Existing graph neural networks…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Joe Meyer , Divyansha Lachi , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Roshan Reddy Upendra , Eva L. Dyer , Mark Li , Tom Palczewski

Entity alignment which aims at linking entities with the same meaning from different knowledge graphs (KGs) is a vital step for knowledge fusion. Existing research focused on learning embeddings of entities by utilizing structural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yao Zhu , Hongzhi Liu , Zhonghai Wu , Yingpeng Du

\textit{Graph neural networks} (GNNs) are effective models for many dynamical systems consisting of entities and relations. Although most GNN applications assume a single type of entity and relation, many situations involve multiple types…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Ferran Alet , Erica Weng , Tomás Lozano Pérez , Leslie Pack Kaelbling

Neural networks excel in detecting regular patterns but are less successful in representing and manipulating complex data structures, possibly due to the lack of an external memory. This has led to the recent development of a new line of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Trang Pham , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Relational Databases (RDBs) are the backbone of modern business, yet they lack foundation models comparable to those in text or vision. A key obstacle is that high-quality RDBs are private, scarce, and structurally heterogeneous, making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yanbo Wang , Jiaxuan You , Chuan Shi , Muhan Zhang

Recent advances have demonstrated the effectiveness of graph-based learning on relational databases (RDBs) for predictive tasks. Such approaches require transforming RDBs into graphs, a process we refer to as RDB-to-graph modeling, where…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Dongwon Choi , Sunwoo Kim , Juyeon Kim , Kyungho Kim , Geon Lee , Shinhwan Kang , Myunghwan Kim , Kijung Shin

While AI systems have made remarkable progress in processing unstructured text, structured data such as graphs stored in databases, continues to grow rapidly yet remains difficult for neural models to effectively utilize. We introduce…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Yufei Li , Yisen Gao , Jiaxin Bai , Jiaxuan Xiong , Haoyu Huang , Zhongwei Xie , Hong Ting Tsang , Yangqiu Song

The application of machine learning techniques in the setting of road networks holds the potential to facilitate many important intelligent transportation applications. Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are neural networks that are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Tobias Skovgaard Jepsen , Christian S. Jensen , Thomas Dyhre Nielsen

Effective management of Service Function Chains (SFCs) and optimal Virtual Network Function (VNF) placement are critical challenges in modern Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) environments. Although…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Xinyu Zhu , Poonam Lohan , Burak Kantarci , Emil Janulewicz

Deep neural network (DNN) and its variants have been extensively used for a wide spectrum of real applications such as image classification, face/speech recognition, fraud detection, and so on. In addition to many important machine learning…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xiang Lian , Xiaofei Zhang

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to process graph-structured data is an active research area, yet current state-of-the-art approaches typically rely on multi-step pipelines with Graph Neural Network (GNN) encoders that compress rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Vajda

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly mitigated the hallucinations of Large Language Models (LLMs) by grounding the generation with external knowledge. Recent extensions of RAG to graph-based retrieval offer a promising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jialin Chen , Houyu Zhang , Seongjun Yun , Alejandro Mottini , Rex Ying , Xiang Song , Vassilis N. Ioannidis , Zheng Li , Qingjun Cui

The majority of data scientists and machine learning practitioners use relational data in their work [State of ML and Data Science 2017, Kaggle, Inc.]. But training machine learning models on data stored in relational databases requires…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Milan Cvitkovic

This study introduces a novel approach to sentence-level relation extraction (RE) that integrates Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) with Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate contextually enriched support documents. By harnessing the power of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Vicky Dong , Hao Yu , Yao Chen

While there has been extensive work on deep neural networks for images and text, deep learning for relational databases (RDBs) is still a rather unexplored field. One direction that recently gained traction is to apply Graph Neural Networks…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Benjamin Hilprecht , Kristian Kersting , Carsten Binnig

Recommender systems (RS) serve as a fundamental tool for navigating the vast expanse of online information, with deep learning advancements playing an increasingly important role in improving ranking accuracy. Among these, graph neural…

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