arXiv Machine Learning

VG-TIE: An interpretable tabular-to-image encoding method based on visibility graphs

VG‑TIE is a tabular‑to‑image encoding method that uses Natural and Horizontal Visibility Graphs to map feature values into a two‑dimensional image via PCA. Each pixel represents a feature, its intensity shows deviation from the population mean, and edges encode visibility relationships. The method offers model‑agnostic, intrinsically interpretable images, providing feature ranking through node degree distributions and local/global importance via pixel intensity combined with Grad‑CAM, and demonstrates competitive performance on six public datasets.

arXiv AI
Jun 17

Graph Neural Networks for Semi-Supervised Image Classification with Multi-Feature Aggregation

arXiv:2606. 17406v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feature extraction involves the identification and extraction of salient characteristics or patterns, including edges, textures, shapes, and color attributes.

By Marina Chagas Bulach Gapski, Vinicius Atsushi Sato Kawai, Gustavo Rosseto Leticio, Lucas Pascotti Valem, Daniel Carlos Guimar\~aes Pedronette, Mohand Said Allili
arXiv AI
Sep 2

Differentially Private Paired Table-Image Multimodal Synthesis

The paper introduces DP-TabImage, a framework that synthesizes paired table–image data while preserving differential privacy. It factorizes the joint distribution into a private probabilistic graphical model for tables and a table‑conditioned diffusion model for images, using DP‑SGD and a privacy‑preserving warm‑up strategy. Experiments on three real datasets demonstrate a strong balance between table fidelity, image fidelity, and cross‑modal alignment.

By Kai Chen, Josephine Lamp, Somesh Jha, Tianhao Wang