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Synthetic tabular data generation has gained significant attention for its potential in data augmentation and privacy-preserving data sharing. While recent methods like diffusion and auto-regressive models (i.e., transformer) have advanced…

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Generating tabular data under conditions is critical to applications requiring precise control over the generative process. Existing methods rely on training-time strategies that do not generalise to unseen constraints during inference, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Aditya Shankar , Yuandou Wang , Rihan Hai , Lydia Y. Chen

Generative diffusion models, famous for their performance in image generation, are popular in various cross-domain applications. However, their use in the communication community has been mostly limited to auxiliary tasks like data modeling…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Ruihuai Liang , Bo Yang , Zhiwen Yu , Bin Guo , Xuelin Cao , Mérouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor , Chau Yuen

Tabular data in relational databases represents a significant portion of industrial data. Hence, analyzing and interpreting tabular data is of utmost importance. Application tasks on tabular data are manifold and are often not specified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Astrid Franz , Frederik Hoppe , Marianne Michaelis , Udo Göbel

Data augmentation via synthetic data generation has been shown to be effective in improving model performance and robustness in the context of scarce or low-quality data. Using the data valuation framework to statistically identify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Tommaso Ferracci , Leonie Tabea Goldmann , Anton Hinel , Francesco Sanna Passino

The distributed data analytic system -- Spark is a common choice for processing massive volumes of heterogeneous data, while it is challenging to tune its parameters to achieve high performance. Recent studies try to employ auto-tuning…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yang Li , Huaijun Jiang , Yu Shen , Yide Fang , Xiaofeng Yang , Danqing Huang , Xinyi Zhang , Wentao Zhang , Ce Zhang , Peng Chen , Bin Cui

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

Neural networks often struggle with high-dimensional but small sample-size tabular datasets. One reason is that current weight initialisation methods assume independence between weights, which can be problematic when there are insufficient…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Andrei Margeloiu , Nikola Simidjievski , Pietro Lio , Mateja Jamnik

State-of-the-art data stream mining has long drawn from ensembles of the Very Fast Decision Tree, a seminal algorithm honored with the 2015 KDD Test-of-Time Award. However, the emergence of large tabular models, i.e., transformers designed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Afonso Lourenço , João Gama , Eric P. Xing , Goreti Marreiros

Creating large-scale datasets for training high-performance generative models is often prohibitively expensive, especially when associated attributes or annotations must be provided. As a result, merging existing datasets has become a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-31 Yanfeng Yang , Kenji Fukumizu

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generating unimodal data across various tasks, including image, video, and text generation. On the contrary, the joint generation of multimodal data through diffusion models is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Kevin Rojas , Yuchen Zhu , Sichen Zhu , Felix X. -F. Ye , Molei Tao

Tabular synthesis models remain ineffective at capturing complex dependencies, and the quality of synthetic data is still insufficient for comprehensive downstream tasks, such as prediction under distribution shifts, automated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Ruibo Tu , Zineb Senane , Lele Cao , Cheng Zhang , Hedvig Kjellström , Gustav Eje Henter

Data attribution for generative models seeks to quantify the influence of individual training examples on model outputs. Existing methods for diffusion models typically require access to model gradients or retraining, limiting their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Yutian Zhao , Chao Du , Xiaosen Zheng , Tianyu Pang , Min Lin

Synthetic tabular data is increasingly used in privacy-sensitive domains such as health care, but existing generative models often fail to preserve inter-attribute relationships. In particular, functional dependencies (FDs) and logical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chaithra Umesh , Kristian Schultz , Manjunath Mahendra , Saptarshi Bej , Olaf Wolkenhauer

While synthetic tabular data generation using Deep Generative Models (DGMs) offers a compelling solution to data scarcity and privacy concerns, their effectiveness relies on the availability of substantial training data, often lacking in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Patricia A. Apellániz , Ana Jiménez , Borja Arroyo Galende , Juan Parras , Santiago Zazo

Tabular data prediction is a fundamental machine learning task for many applications. Existing methods predominantly employ discriminative modeling and operate under the assumption of a fixed target column, necessitating re-training for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Ruiyu Wang , Zifeng Wang , Jimeng Sun

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are deep-learning architectures designed for graph-type data, where understanding relationships among individual observations is crucial. However, achieving promising GNN performance, especially on unseen data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Lequan Lin , Dai Shi , Andi Han , Zhiyong Wang , Junbin Gao

Tabular data synthesis is an emerging approach to circumvent strict regulations on data privacy while discovering knowledge through big data. Although state-of-the-art AI-based tabular data synthesizers, e.g., table-GAN, CTGAN, TVAE, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Yujin Zhu , Zilong Zhao , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Producing large complex simulation datasets can often be a time and resource consuming task. Especially when these experiments are very expensive, it is becoming more reasonable to generate synthetic data for downstream tasks. Recently,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Paimon Goulart , Shaan Pakala , Evangelos Papalexakis

In recent years, Deep Learning has gained popularity for its ability to solve complex classification tasks, increasingly delivering better results thanks to the development of more accurate models, the availability of huge volumes of data…