TabText: A Flexible and Contextual Approach to Tabular Data Representation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.10381v4
• Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 20:34:02 GMT
• Title: TabText: A Flexible and Contextual Approach to Tabular Data Representation
• Authors: Kimberly Villalobos Carballo, Liangyuan Na, Yu Ma, L\'eonard Boussioux, Cynthia Zeng, Luis R. Soenksen, Dimitris Bertsimas
• Abstract summary: TabText is a processing framework that extracts contextual information from tabular data structures. We show that TabText improves the average and worst-case AUC performance of standard machine learning models by as much as 6%.
• Score: 4.116980088382032
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Tabular data is essential for applying machine learning tasks across various industries. However, traditional data processing methods do not fully utilize all the information available in the tables, ignoring important contextual information such as column header descriptions. In addition, pre-processing data into a tabular format can remain a labor-intensive bottleneck in model development. This work introduces TabText, a processing and feature extraction framework that extracts contextual information from tabular data structures. TabText addresses processing difficulties by converting the content into language and utilizing pre-trained large language models (LLMs). We evaluate our framework on nine healthcare prediction tasks ranging from patient discharge, ICU admission, and mortality. We show that 1) applying our TabText framework enables the generation of high-performing and simple machine learning baseline models with minimal data pre-processing, and 2) augmenting pre-processed tabular data with TabText representations improves the average and worst-case AUC performance of standard machine learning models by as much as 6%.

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