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Graph Neural Network Contextual Embedding for Deep Learning on Tabular Data (arxiv.org)
1 point by rickrollin on Mar 14, 2023 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: It turns each row of numbers and categories into a small graph so a neural network can learn how the features interact. On five public data collections it beat a recent deep-learning baseline and nearly matched boosted trees, the usual best option.

Abstract · Graph Neural Network contextual embedding for Deep Learning on Tabular Data

All industries are trying to leverage Artificial Intelligence (AI) based on their existing big data which is available in so called tabular form, where each record is composed of a number of heterogeneous continuous and categorical columns also known as features. Deep Learning (DL) has constituted a major breakthrough for AI in fields related to human skills like natural language processing, but its applicability to tabular data has been more challenging. More classical Machine Learning (ML) models like tree-based ensemble ones usually perform better. This paper presents a novel DL model using Graph Neural Network (GNN) more specifically Interaction Network (IN), for contextual embedding and modelling interactions among tabular features. Its results outperform those of a recently published survey with DL benchmark based on five public datasets, also achieving competitive results when compared to boosted-tree solutions.

Mario Villaizán-Vallelado, Matteo Salvatori, Belén Carro Martinez, Antonio Javier Sanchez Esguevillas
arXiv:2303.06455 · cs.LG, cs.AI · submitted Mar 11, 2023 · updated Jul 4, 2023
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