The best performing AI systems have deep neural networks at their core. For example, Transformer-based language models such as BERT typically form the basis for natural language processing (NLP) applications. Applications that rely on tabular data were an exception to the deep learning revolution, as decision tree methods often outperformed.
AWS researchers focused on developing TabTransformer, a brand new, deep, tabular data modeling architecture for supervised and semi-supervised learning. TabTransformer extends Transformers beyond natural language processing to tabular data.
TabTransformer can be used for classification and regression tasks with Amazon SageMaker JumpStart. The SageMaker JumpStart UI in SageMaker Studio and the SageMaker Python SDK provide access to TabTransformer from Python code. TabTransformer has sparked interest from individuals in various fields. It has also been presented in the Weakly Supervised Learning Workshop of the ICLR 2021. In addition, it has been added to the official repository of Keras, a well-known open source software library for working with deep neural networks.
To create reliable data representations or embeddings for categorical variables that can take on a limited number of discrete values, such as the months of the year, TabTransformer uses Transformers. Numerical values and other continuous variables are processed in parallel streams.
It uses NLP by pre-training a model on unlabeled data to learn a broad embedding scheme and then refining it on labeled data to learn a specific task.
TabTransformer beats state-of-the-art deep-learning tabular data algorithms in trials on 15 publicly available datasets by at least 1.0 percent on mean AUC. the area under the receiver operating curve represents a false positive versus false negative percentage. It also demonstrates that it rivals the effectiveness of tree-based ensemble models. DNNs often outperform decision tree-based models in semi-controlled situations when labeled data is limited, because they can make better use of unlabeled data. TabTransformer showed a mean AUC lift above the most substantial DNN benchmark of 2.1 percent using the groundbreaking, unsupervised pre-training method.
The contextual embeddings learned through TabTransformer withstand missing and noisy data features and provide greater interpretability, which we also demonstrate in the last part of our analysis. Below is a diagram of TabTransformer’s architecture. In studies, researchers converted data types, including text, zip codes, and IP addresses, into numerical or categorical attributes using typical feature engineering approaches.
TabTransformer definitely paves the way by bringing the power of deep learning to data in tables.
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