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Score-based generative models, commonly referred to as diffusion models, have proven to be successful at generating text and image data. However, their adaptation to mixed-type tabular data remains underexplored. In this work, we propose…

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Tabular data is one of the most ubiquitous modalities, yet the literature on tabular generative foundation models is lagging far behind its text and vision counterparts. Creating such a model is hard, due to the heterogeneous feature spaces…

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Traditional Differential Privacy (DP) mechanisms are typically tailored to specific analysis tasks, which limits the reusability of protected data. DP tabular data synthesis overcomes this by generating synthetic datasets that can be shared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xiaochen Li , Fengyu Gao , Xizixiang Wei , Tianhao Wang , Cong Shen , Jing Yang

Score-based or diffusion models generate high-quality tabular data, surpassing GAN-based and VAE-based models. However, these methods require substantial training time. In this paper, we introduce RecTable, which uses the rectified flow…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Masane Fuchi , Tomohiro Takagi

Tabular data generation has recently attracted a growing interest due to its different application scenarios. However, generating time series of tabular data, where each element of the series depends on the others, remains a largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Fabrizio Garuti , Enver Sangineto , Simone Luetto , Lorenzo Forni , Rita Cucchiara

Deep generative models have made rapid progress in image, text, audio, and video generation, and are increasingly being applied to structured records. For tabular data, however, generative modeling remains difficult: a dataset may contain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Zhong Li , Qi Huang , Lincen Yang , Jiayang Shi , Zhao Yang , Niki van Stein , Thomas Bäck , Matthijs van Leeuwen

Diffusion models have been the predominant generative model for tabular data generation. However, they face the conundrum of modeling under a separate versus a unified data representation. The former encounters the challenge of jointly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Jacob Si , Zijing Ou , Mike Qu , Zhengrui Xiang , Yingzhen Li

Synthetic tabular data is becoming a necessity as concerns about data privacy intensify in the world. Tabular data can be useful for testing various systems, simulating real data, analyzing the data itself or building predictive models.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Volodymyr Shulakov

The ability to train generative models that produce realistic, safe and useful tabular data is essential for data privacy, imputation, oversampling, explainability or simulation. However, generating tabular data is not straightforward due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-18 G. Charbel N. Kindji , Lina Maria Rojas-Barahona , Elisa Fromont , Tanguy Urvoy

Synthetic tabular data generation becomes crucial when real data is limited, expensive to collect, or simply cannot be used due to privacy concerns. However, producing good quality synthetic data is challenging. Several probabilistic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Vikram S Chundawat , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Mukund Lahoti , Pratik Narang

Synthetic tabular data generation has attracted growing attention due to its importance for data augmentation, foundation models, and privacy. However, real-world tabular datasets increasingly contain free-form text fields (e.g., reviews or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Donghong Cai , Jiarui Feng , Yanbo Wang , Da Zheng , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Realistic synthetic tabular data generation encounters significant challenges in preserving privacy, especially when dealing with sensitive information in domains like finance and healthcare. In this paper, we introduce \textit{Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Denoising diffusion probabilistic models are currently becoming the leading paradigm of generative modeling for many important data modalities. Being the most prevalent in the computer vision community, diffusion models have also recently…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Akim Kotelnikov , Dmitry Baranchuk , Ivan Rubachev , Artem Babenko

Data collection is often difficult in critical fields such as medicine, physics, and chemistry. As a result, classification methods usually perform poorly with these small datasets, leading to weak predictive performance. Increasing the…

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Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) unfortunately limit its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Hiek Van der Scheer , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

While data sharing is crucial for knowledge development, privacy concerns and strict regulation (e.g., European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)) unfortunately limits its full effectiveness. Synthetic tabular data emerges as an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Aditya Kunar

The increasing demand for privacy-preserving data analytics in various domains necessitates solutions for synthetic data generation that rigorously uphold privacy standards. We introduce the DP-FedTabDiff framework, a novel integration of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Advances in generative modeling have recently been adapted to tabular data containing discrete and continuous features. However, generating mixed-type features that combine discrete states with an otherwise continuous distribution in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Markus Mueller , Kathrin Gruber , Dennis Fok

Synthetic data is often positioned as a solution to replace sensitive fixed-size datasets with a source of unlimited matching data, freed from privacy concerns. There has been much progress in synthetic data generation over the last decade,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Graham Cormode , Samuel Maddock , Enayat Ullah , Shripad Gade