When, Where, and How: Adaptive Binning for Tabular Self-Supervised Learning
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This paper proposes Adaptive Binning, a learning-coupled feature-wise coarse-to-fine curriculum for tabular self-supervised learning that adaptively discretizes features, improving representations on medical datasets and establishing a unified benchmark.
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Source: https://huggingface.co/papers/2606.19827

This paper proposes Adaptive Binning for medical tabular self-supervised learning. The core idea is to replace fixed global quantile binning with a learning-coupled, feature-wise coarse-to-fine curriculum that determines when to refine each feature, where to split its bins, and how to supervise mixed categorical–numerical schemas through type-aware ordinal reconstruction.
We show that adaptive discretization yields stronger representations across diverse public medical tabular datasets in both linear probing and fine-tuning evaluations. We also establish a unified benchmark for reproducible medical tabular self-supervised learning.
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