[2305.15321] Towards Foundation Models for Relational Databases [Vision Paper]
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[Submitted on 24 May 2023]

Title:Towards Foundation Models for Relational Databases [Vision Paper]

Authors:Liane Vogel, Benjamin Hilprecht, Carsten Binnig
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Abstract:Tabular representation learning has recently gained a lot of attention. However, existing approaches only learn a representation from a single table, and thus ignore the potential to learn from the full structure of relational databases, including neighboring tables that can contain important information for a contextualized representation. Moreover, current models are significantly limited in scale, which prevents that they learn from large databases. In this paper, we thus introduce our vision of relational representation learning, that can not only learn from the full relational structure, but also can scale to larger database sizes that are commonly found in real-world. Moreover, we also discuss opportunities and challenges we see along the way to enable this vision and present initial very promising results. Overall, we argue that this direction can lead to foundation models for relational databases that are today only available for text and images.
Comments: Accepted at the Tabular Representation Learning Workshop at NeurIPS 2022 (TRL@NeurIPS2022)
Subjects: Databases (cs.DB); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2305.15321 [cs.DB]
  (or arXiv:2305.15321v1 [cs.DB] for this version)
  https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2305.15321

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From: Liane Vogel [view email]
[v1] Wed, 24 May 2023 16:37:35 UTC (301 KB)
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