How Should Transformers Encode Numeric Values in Electronic Health Records?

arXiv:2607.01391 · cs.LG, cs.AI · Submitted 2026-07-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.LG, cs.AI

Submitted: 2026-07-01

Updated: 2026-07-01

Comments: 16 pages, 15 figures, 3 tables, accepted to ICML 2026, to be published in Proceedings of Machine Learning Research

Journal ref: Proceedings of the 43rd International Conference on Machine Learning (2026)

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Transformer — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Transformers — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

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