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Diffusion model has become a main paradigm for synthetic data generation in many subfields of modern machine learning, including computer vision, language model, or speech synthesis. In this paper, we leverage the power of diffusion model…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-11-20 Namjoon Suh , Xiaofeng Lin , Din-Yin Hsieh , Merhdad Honarkhah , Guang Cheng

Relational tables on the Web store a vast amount of knowledge. Owing to the wealth of such tables, there has been tremendous progress on a variety of tasks in the area of table understanding. However, existing work generally relies on…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Xiang Deng , Huan Sun , Alyssa Lees , You Wu , Cong Yu

Recent development of deep neural networks (DNNs) for tabular learning has largely benefited from the capability of DNNs for automatic feature interaction. However, the heterogeneity nature of tabular features makes such features relatively…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Jiahuan Yan , Jintai Chen , Yixuan Wu , Danny Z. Chen , Jian Wu

Representation learning stands as one of the critical machine learning techniques across various domains. Through the acquisition of high-quality features, pre-trained embeddings significantly reduce input space redundancy, benefiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Suiyao Chen , Jing Wu , Naira Hovakimyan , Handong Yao

Data augmentation is gaining importance across various aspects of time series analysis, from forecasting to classification and anomaly detection tasks. We introduce the Latent Generative Transformer Augmentation (L-GTA) model, a generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Luis Roque , Carlos Soares , Vitor Cerqueira , Luis Torgo

Insights in tabular data capture valuable patterns that help analysts understand critical information. Organizing related insights into visual data stories is crucial for in-depth analysis. However, constructing such stories is challenging…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Gerile Aodeng , Guozheng Li , Yunshan Feng , Qiyang Chen , Yu Zhang , Chi Harold Liu

Tabular data comprising rows (samples) with the same set of columns (attributes, is one of the most widely used data-type among various industries, including financial services, health care, research, retail, and logistics, to name a few.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-24 Rajat Singh , Srikanta Bedathur

Due to their data-driven nature, Machine Learning (ML) models are susceptible to bias inherited from data, especially in classification problems where class and group imbalances are prevalent. Class imbalance (in the classification target)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Emmanouil Panagiotou , Arjun Roy , Eirini Ntoutsi

Generative modelling with Transformer architectures can simulate complex sequential structures across various applications. We extend this line of work to the social sciences by introducing a Transformer-based generative model tailored to…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-23 Alberto Cabezas , Carlotta Montorsi

Most tabular-data generators match marginal statistics yet ignore causal structure, leading downstream models to learn spurious or unfair patterns. We present TabSCM, a mixed-type generator that preserves those causal dependencies. Starting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Sven Jacob , Bardh Prenkaj , Weijia Shao , Gjergji Kasneci

Real-world time series data are inherently multivariate, often exhibiting complex inter-channel dependencies. Each channel is typically sampled at its own period and is prone to missing values due to various practical and operational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Jinkwan Jang , Hyungjin Park , Jinmyeong Choi , Taesup Kim

In data science, there is a long history of using synthetic data for method development, feature selection and feature engineering. Our current interest in synthetic data comes from recent work in explainability. Today's datasets are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Brian Barr , Ke Xu , Claudio Silva , Enrico Bertini , Robert Reilly , C. Bayan Bruss , Jason D. Wittenbach

Machine Learning (ML) is accelerating progress across fields and industries, but relies on accessible and high-quality training data. Some of the most important datasets are found in biomedical and financial domains in the form of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Gianluca Truda

Missing data in tabular dataset is a common issue as the performance of downstream tasks usually depends on the completeness of the training dataset. Previous missing data imputation methods focus on numeric and categorical columns, but we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Ting-Ruen Wei , Yuan Wang , Yoshitaka Inoue , Hsin-Tai Wu , Yi Fang

Transforming dense, detailed, unstructured text into an interpretable and summarised table, also colloquially known as Text-to-Table generation, is an essential task for information retrieval. Current methods, however, miss out on how and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Naman Ahuja , Fenil Bardoliya , Chitta Baral , Vivek Gupta

Table processing-including cleaning, transformation, augmentation, and matching-is a foundational yet error-prone stage in real-world data pipelines. While recent LLM-based approaches show promise for automating such tasks, they often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Wei Liu , Yang Gu , Xi Yan , Zihan Nan , Beicheng Xu , Keyao Ding , Bin Cui , Wentao Zhang

Data organized in tabular format is ubiquitous in real-world applications, and users often craft tables with biased feature definitions and flexibly set prediction targets of their interests. Thus, a rapid development of a robust,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-29 Jintai Chen , Jiahuan Yan , Qiyuan Chen , Danny Ziyi Chen , Jian Wu , Jimeng Sun

A common objective in the analysis of tabular data is estimating the conditional distribution (in contrast to only producing predictions) of a set of "outcome" variables given a set of "covariates", which is sometimes referred to as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-08 Zhuoqun Wang , Naoki Awaya , Li Ma

Separate programming models for data transformation (declarative) and computation (procedural) impact programmer ergonomics, code reusability and database efficiency. To eliminate the necessity for two models or paradigms, we propose a…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-11-09 David Robert Pratten , Luke Mathieson

Synthetic data generation has emerged as a crucial topic for financial institutions, driven by multiple factors, such as privacy protection and data augmentation. Many algorithms have been proposed for synthetic data generation but reaching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Shinpei Nakamura-Sakai , Fadi Hamad , Saheed Obitayo , Vamsi K. Potluru