Summary of Relbench: a Benchmark For Deep Learning on Relational Databases, by Joshua Robinson et al.
RelBench: A Benchmark for Deep Learning on Relational Databases
by Joshua Robinson, Rishabh Ranjan, Weihua Hu, Kexin Huang, Jiaqi Han, Alejandro Dobles, Matthias Fey, Jan E. Lenssen, Yiwen Yuan, Zecheng Zhang, Xinwei He, Jure Leskovec
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Databases (cs.DB)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The RelBench benchmark offers a standardized evaluation framework for graph neural networks applied to relational databases, covering various domains and scales. The paper presents the first comprehensive study on Relational Deep Learning (RDL), which combines graph neural networks with deep tabular models that extract initial entity-level representations from raw tables. By fully exploiting primary-foreign key links, RDL models surpass traditional feature engineering approaches. An in-depth user study showcases RDL’s ability to learn better models while significantly reducing human workload. This breakthrough demonstrates the potential of deep learning for relational database tasks and paves the way for future research enabled by RelBench. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary RelBench is a new tool that helps machines understand data from many different sources. Right now, people have to do a lot of work to prepare this data so that computers can use it. The researchers who made RelBench wanted to see if they could teach computers to do some of this work instead. They used special kinds of computer models called graph neural networks and deep tabular models to make the computers learn from the data. This was more effective than what people are doing now, and it could open up new possibilities for using computers with data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Deep learning » Feature engineering
