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Auteurs principaux: Chen, Haozhe, Farokhi, Soheila, Bladen, Kelvyn, Karimi, Hamid, Moon, Kevin R.
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Publié: 2026
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24224
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author Chen, Haozhe
Farokhi, Soheila
Bladen, Kelvyn
Karimi, Hamid
Moon, Kevin R.
author_facet Chen, Haozhe
Farokhi, Soheila
Bladen, Kelvyn
Karimi, Hamid
Moon, Kevin R.
contents Graphs are essential for modeling complex relationships and capturing structured interactions in data. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are particularly effective when such relational structure is explicitly available, but many real-world datasets, most notably tabular data, lack an inherent graph representation. To address this limitation, we propose RF-GNN, a framework that constructs instance-level graphs from tabular data using proximity measures induced by random forests. These proximities capture nonlinear feature interactions and data-adaptive similarity without imposing restrictive assumptions on feature geometry. The resulting graphs enable the direct application of GNNs to tabular learning problems. Extensive experiments on 36 benchmark datasets demonstrate that RF-GNN consistently outperforms strong classical baselines and recent graph-construction methods in terms of weighted F1-score. Additional ablation studies highlight the impact of proximity design choices and graph construction settings.
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spellingShingle Random-Forest-Induced Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Learning
Chen, Haozhe
Farokhi, Soheila
Bladen, Kelvyn
Karimi, Hamid
Moon, Kevin R.
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Graphs are essential for modeling complex relationships and capturing structured interactions in data. Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are particularly effective when such relational structure is explicitly available, but many real-world datasets, most notably tabular data, lack an inherent graph representation. To address this limitation, we propose RF-GNN, a framework that constructs instance-level graphs from tabular data using proximity measures induced by random forests. These proximities capture nonlinear feature interactions and data-adaptive similarity without imposing restrictive assumptions on feature geometry. The resulting graphs enable the direct application of GNNs to tabular learning problems. Extensive experiments on 36 benchmark datasets demonstrate that RF-GNN consistently outperforms strong classical baselines and recent graph-construction methods in terms of weighted F1-score. Additional ablation studies highlight the impact of proximity design choices and graph construction settings.
title Random-Forest-Induced Graph Neural Networks for Tabular Learning
topic Graphics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24224