Table Transformers for Imputing Textual Attributes
<|reference_start|>Table Transformers for Imputing Textual Attributes: Missing data in tabular dataset is a common issue as the performance of downstream tasks usually depends on the completeness of the training dataset. Previous missing data imputation methods focus on numeric and categorical columns, but we propose a novel end-to-end approach called Table Transformers for Imputing Textual Attributes (TTITA) based on the transformer to impute unstructured textual columns using other columns in the table. We conduct extensive experiments on two Amazon Reviews datasets, and our approach shows competitive performance outperforming baseline models such as recurrent neural networks and Llama2. The performance improvement is more significant when the target sequence has a longer length. Additionally, we incorporated multi-task learning to simultaneously impute for heterogeneous columns, boosting the performance for text imputation. We also qualitatively compare with ChatGPT for realistic applications.<|reference_end|>
@article{wei2024table,
    title={Table Transformers for Imputing Textual Attributes},
    author={Ting-Ruen Wei, Yuan Wang, Yoshitaka Inoue, Hsin-Tai Wu and Yi Fang},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.02128},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2408.02128},
    primaryClass={cs.CL}
}