We have described a novel approach for training tabular data using the TabTransformer model with self-supervised learning. Traditional machine learning models for tabular data, such as GBDT are being widely used though our paper examines the effectiveness of the TabTransformer which is a Transformer based model optimised specifically for tabular data. The TabTransformer captures intricate relationships and dependencies among features in tabular data by leveraging the self-attention mechanism of Transformers. We have used a self-supervised learning approach in this study, where the TabTransformer learns from unlabelled data by creating surrogate supervised tasks, eliminating the need for the labelled data. The aim is to find the most effective TabTransformer model representation of categorical and numerical features. To address the challenges faced during the construction of various input settings into the Transformers. Furthermore, a comparative analysis is also been conducted to examine performance of the TabTransformer model against baseline models such as MLP and supervised TabTransformer. The research has presented with a novel approach by creating various variants of TabTransformer model namely, Binned-TT, Vanilla-MLP-TT, MLP- based-TT which has helped to increase the effective capturing of the underlying relationship between various features of the tabular dataset by constructing optimal inputs. And further we have employed a self-supervised learning approach in the form of a masking-based unsupervised setting for tabular data. The findings shed light on the best way to represent categorical and numerical features, emphasizing the TabTransormer performance when compared to established machine learning models and other self-supervised learning methods.

使用自监督学习的TabTransformer模型，通过描述一种新颖的表格数据训练方法，提高了对分类和数值特征的建模能力。通过对比传统机器学习模型和自监督学习方法，研究结果显示TabTransformer在表格数据上的性能优势。

基于表格数据的深度学习：一种自监督方法