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Synthesizing Tabular Data Using Selectivity Enhanced Generative Adversarial Networks

Machine Learning 2025-03-03 v1 Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

As E-commerce platforms face surging transactions during major shopping events like Black Friday, stress testing with synthesized data is crucial for resource planning. Most recent studies use Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to generate tabular data while ensuring privacy and machine learning utility. However, these methods overlook the computational demands of processing GAN-generated data, making them unsuitable for E-commerce stress testing. This thesis introduces a novel GAN-based approach incorporating query selectivity constraints, a key factor in database transaction processing. We integrate a pre-trained deep neural network to maintain selectivity consistency between real and synthetic data. Our method, tested on five real-world datasets, outperforms three state-of-the-art GANs and a VAE model, improving selectivity estimation accuracy by up to 20pct and machine learning utility by up to 6 pct.

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@article{arxiv.2502.21034,
  title  = {Synthesizing Tabular Data Using Selectivity Enhanced Generative Adversarial Networks},
  author = {Youran Zhou and Jianzhong Qi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.21034},
  year   = {2025}
}

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This thesis submitted to the University of Melbourne for partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Data Science

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