Title
Retrieval & Interaction Machine for Tabular Data Prediction
Abstract
ABSTRACTPrediction over tabular data is an essential task in many data science applications such as recommender systems, online advertising, medical treatment, etc. Tabular data is structured into rows and columns, with each row as a data sample and each column as a feature attribute. Both the columns and rows of the tabular data carry useful patterns that could improve the model prediction performance. However, most existing models focus on the cross-column patterns yet overlook the cross-rowpatterns as they deal with single samples independently. In this work, we propose a general learning framework named Retrieval & Interaction Machine (RIM) that fully exploits both cross-row and cross-column patterns among tabular data. Specifically, RIM first leverages search engine techniques to efficiently retrieve useful rows of the table to assist the label prediction of the target row, then uses feature interaction networks to capture the cross-column patterns among the target row and the retrieved rows so as to make the final label prediction. We conduct extensive experiments on 11 datasets of three important tasks, i.e., CTR prediction (classification), top-n recommendation (ranking) and rating prediction (regression). Experimental results show that RIM achieves significant improvements over the state-of-the-art and various baselines, demonstrating the superiority and efficacy of RIM.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3447548.3467216
Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
Keywords
DocType
Citations 
Information Retrieval, Tabular Data, Recommender Systems
Conference
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
16
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jiarui Qin1173.82
Weinan Zhang2122897.24
Rong Su340.74
Zhirong Liu4113.27
Weiwen Liu54510.55
Ruiming Tang612519.25
Xiuqiang He731239.21
Yong Yu87637380.66