Geodesic Flow Kernels for Semi-Supervised Learning on Mixed-Variable Tabular Dataset

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12864v2
• Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 11:52:59 GMT
• Title: Geodesic Flow Kernels for Semi-Supervised Learning on Mixed-Variable Tabular Dataset
• Authors: Yoontae Hwang, Yongjae Lee,
• Abstract summary: GFTab is a semi-Supervised Learning on Mixed-Variable Tabular dataset framework.<n>GFTab incorporates three key innovations: 1) Variable-specific corruption methods tailored to the distinct properties of continuous and categorical variables, 2) A Geodesic flow kernel based similarity measure to capture geometric changes between corrupted inputs, and 3) Tree-based embedding to leverage hierarchical relationships from available labeled data.<n>Our experimental results show that GFTab outperforms existing ML/DL models across many of these datasets, particularly in settings with limited labeled data.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Tabular data poses unique challenges due to its heterogeneous nature, combining both continuous and categorical variables. Existing approaches often struggle to effectively capture the underlying structure and relationships within such data. We propose GFTab (Geodesic Flow Kernels for Semi- Supervised Learning on Mixed-Variable Tabular Dataset), a semi-supervised framework specifically designed for tabular datasets. GFTab incorporates three key innovations: 1) Variable-specific corruption methods tailored to the distinct properties of continuous and categorical variables, 2) A Geodesic flow kernel based similarity measure to capture geometric changes between corrupted inputs, and 3) Tree-based embedding to leverage hierarchical relationships from available labeled data. To rigorously evaluate GFTab, we curate a comprehensive set of 21 tabular datasets spanning various domains, sizes, and variable compositions. Our experimental results show that GFTab outperforms existing ML/DL models across many of these datasets, particularly in settings with limited labeled data.

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