Summary of Arithmetic Feature Interaction Is Necessary For Deep Tabular Learning, by Yi Cheng et al.
Arithmetic Feature Interaction Is Necessary for Deep Tabular Learning
by Yi Cheng, Renjun Hu, Haochao Ying, Xing Shi, Jian Wu, Wei Lin
First submitted to arxiv on: 4 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates the inductive bias of deep models on tabular data, specifically exploring whether arithmetic feature interaction is necessary for effective learning. The authors propose a modified transformer architecture, AMFormer, which enables arithmetical feature interactions and outperforms strong counterparts in fine-grained tabular data modeling, data efficiency, and generalization. The model’s parallel additive and multiplicative attention operators, along with prompt-based optimization, facilitate the separation of tabular samples in an extended space with arithmetically-engineered features. Extensive experiments on real-world data validate the consistent effectiveness, efficiency, and rationale of AMFormer, suggesting it has established a strong inductive bias for deep learning on tabular data. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to figure out what makes deep learning models good at working with tables of numbers. The authors test an idea that if they add special math interactions between the numbers, their model will get even better. They create a new kind of transformer architecture that lets them do this, and it works really well! It’s fast, gets accurate results, and is good at generalizing to new data. This could be important for lots of real-world applications. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Attention * Deep learning * Generalization * Optimization * Prompt * Transformer
