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Transformers for Tabular Data Representation: A Tutorial on Models and Applications

Summary: Tutorial surveying transformer-based representations for tabular data, detailing how LMs adapt to relational tables and modeling limits. Outlines data-management applications and a call for DB researchers to engage with tabular transformers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
12879
Venue
VLDB
Year
2022
Pagerank
5.4960654e-05
Overall Rank
5,457 | 62.08%
DOI
10.14778/3554821.3554890

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5,429 Logical and Physical Optimizations for SQL Query Execution over Large Language Models 2025 SIGMOD 5.511638e-05
6,071 Observatory: Characterizing Embeddings of Relational Tables 2024 VLDB 5.2231739e-05
6,798 DTT: An Example-Driven Tabular Transformer for Joinability by Leveraging Large Language Models 2024 SIGMOD 4.9186164e-05
7,045 Magneto: Combining Small and Large Language Models for Schema Matching 2025 VLDB 4.8474104e-05
8,852 Watchog: A Light-weight Contrastive Learning based Framework for Column Annotation 2023 SIGMOD 4.4313992e-05
8,892 Generation of Training Examples for Tabular Natural Language Inference 2023 SIGMOD 4.4233018e-05
10,519 Table Overlap Estimation through Graph Embeddings 2025 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
10,597 Birdie: Natural Language-Driven Table Discovery Using Differentiable Search Index 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,760 OmniMatch: Joinability Discovery in Data Products 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,839 Large Language Models for Spatial Analysis Queries 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,848 Panel on Neural Relational Data: Tabular Foundation Models, LLMs... or both? 2025 VLDB 4.1905499e-05
10,954 Determining the Largest Overlap between Tables 2024 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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219 Deep Entity Matching with Pre-Trained Language Models 2021 VLDB 0.00033354456
514 TURL: Table Understanding through Representation Learning 2021 VLDB 0.00021280726
1,914 Creating Embeddings of Heterogeneous Relational Datasets for Data Integration Tasks 2020 SIGMOD 0.00010111859
2,348 RPT: Relational Pre-trained Transformer Is Almost All You Need towards Democratizing Data Preparation 2021 VLDB 8.9903659e-05
2,513 Annotating Columns with Pre-trained Language Models 2022 SIGMOD 8.6155767e-05
3,636 A Deep Dive into Deep Learning Approaches for Text-to-SQL Systems 2021 SIGMOD 6.8920532e-05
11,350 Pythia: Unsupervised Generation of Ambiguous Textual Claims from Relational Data 2022 SIGMOD 4.1905499e-05
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