arXiv AI By Mengying Zhou, Yongjie Yin, Haoyan Xin, Guoping Liu, Yang Chen

Cross-Domain Feature Expansion for Tabular Medical Data via Knowledge Graphs Injection

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arXiv:2606. 31171v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Acquiring comprehensive cross-domain biomedical profiles is often costly and time-consuming, resulting in severe data scarcity in medical research.

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