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Besides reproducing tabular data properties of standalone tables, synthetic relational databases also require modeling the relationships between related tables. In this paper, we propose the Row Conditional-Tabular Generative Adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Mohamed Gueye , Yazid Attabi , Maxime Dumas

The banking sector faces challenges in using deep learning due to data sensitivity and regulatory constraints, but generative AI may offer a solution. Thus, this study identifies effective algorithms for generating synthetic financial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Fabian Sven Karst , Sook-Yee Chong , Abigail A. Antenor , Enyu Lin , Mahei Manhai Li , Jan Marco Leimeister

Despite the remarkable success of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on text, images, and videos, generating high-quality tabular data is still under development owing to some unique challenges such as capturing dependencies in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Chang Sun , Johan van Soest , Michel Dumontier

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are typically trained to synthesize data, from images and more recently tabular data, under the assumption of directly accessible training data. Recently, federated learning (FL) is an emerging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Aditya Kunar , Lydia Y. Chen

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a promising approach to address the challenges of using sensitive financial data in machine learning applications. By leveraging generative models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 James Meldrum , Basem Suleiman , Fethi Rabhi , Muhammad Johan Alibasa

Generative modeling has recently seen many exciting developments with the advent of deep generative architectures such as Variational Auto-Encoders (VAE) or Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). The ability to draw synthetic i.i.d.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-19 Johan Leduc , Nicolas Grislain

The proliferation of big data has brought an urgent demand for privacy-preserving data publishing. Traditional solutions to this demand have limitations on effectively balancing the tradeoff between privacy and utility of the released data.…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-08-31 Ju Fan , Tongyu Liu , Guoliang Li , Junyou Chen , Yuwei Shen , Xiaoyong Du

Limited data access is a longstanding barrier to data-driven research and development in the networked systems community. In this work, we explore if and how generative adversarial networks (GANs) can be used to incentivize data sharing by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Zinan Lin , Alankar Jain , Chen Wang , Giulia Fanti , Vyas Sekar

The potential of realistic and useful synthetic data is significant. However, current evaluation methods for synthetic tabular data generation predominantly focus on downstream task usefulness, often neglecting the importance of statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Tejumade Afonja , Dingfan Chen , Mario Fritz

Data synthesis has been advocated as an important approach for utilizing data while protecting data privacy. In recent years, a plethora of tabular data synthesis algorithms (i.e., synthesizers) have been proposed. Some synthesizers satisfy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Yuntao Du , Ninghui Li

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have been used in many studies to synthesise mixed tabular data. Conditional tabular GAN (CTGAN) have been the most popular variant but struggle to effectively navigate the risk-utility trade-off.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Bahrul Ilmi Nasution , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger

With the increasing reliance on automated decision making, the issue of algorithmic fairness has gained increasing importance. In this paper, we propose a Generative Adversarial Network for tabular data generation. The model includes two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Amirarsalan Rajabi , Ozlem Ozmen Garibay

Synthetic healthcare data generation offers a promising solution to research limitations in clinical settings caused by privacy and regulatory constraints. However, current synthetic data generation approaches require specialized knowledge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Nitish Nagesh , Salar Shakibhamedan , Mahdi Bagheri , Ziyu Wang , Nima TaheriNejad , Axel Jantsch , Amir M. Rahmani

Tabular generative adversarial networks (TGAN) have recently emerged to cater to the need of synthesizing tabular data -- the most widely used data format. While synthetic tabular data offers the advantage of complying with privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-03 Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Zilong Zhao , Lydia Chen

Utility and privacy are two crucial measurements of the quality of synthetic tabular data. While significant advancements have been made in privacy measures, generating synthetic samples with high utility remains challenging. To enhance the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Oriel Perets , Nadav Rappoport

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are gaining increasing attention as a means for synthesising data. So far much of this work has been applied to use cases outside of the data confidentiality domain with a common application being the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Claire Little , Mark Elliot , Richard Allmendinger , Sahel Shariati Samani

Machine learning models have been criticized for reflecting unfair biases in the training data. Instead of solving for this by introducing fair learning algorithms directly, we focus on generating fair synthetic data, such that any…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-08 Boris van Breugel , Trent Kyono , Jeroen Berrevoets , Mihaela van der Schaar

Privacy-preserving synthetic data offers a promising solution to harness segregated data in high-stakes domains where information is compartmentalized for regulatory, privacy, or institutional reasons. This survey provides a comprehensive…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Viktor Schlegel , Anil A Bharath , Zilong Zhao , Kevin Yee

We explore the privacy-utility tradeoff of synthetic data generation schemes on tabular financial datasets, a domain characterized by high regulatory risk and severe class imbalance. We consider representative tabular data generators,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Michael Zuo , Inwon Kang , Stacy Patterson , Oshani Seneviratne