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This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

In this paper, we propose a distributed Generative Adversarial Networks (discGANs) to generate synthetic tabular data specific to the healthcare domain. While using GANs to generate images has been well studied, little to no attention has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 David Fuentes , Diana McSpadden , Sodiq Adewole

Existing differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation mechanisms typically assume a single-source table. In practice, data is often distributed across multiple tables with relationships across tables. In this paper, we introduce…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kaveh Alimohammadi , Hao Wang , Ojas Gulati , Akash Srivastava , Navid Azizan

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

Synthetic tabular data are often evaluated by distributional similarity, privacy distance, or train-on-synthetic-test-on-real predictive performance, but these criteria do not ensure validity for causal inference. We show that fully…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Yichen Xu

Conditionality has become a core component for Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) for generating synthetic images. GANs are usually using latent conditionality to control the generation process. However, tabular data only contains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Gael Lederrey , Tim Hillel , Michel Bierlaire

Privacy is an important concern for our society where sharing data with partners or releasing data to the public is a frequent occurrence. Some of the techniques that are being used to achieve privacy are to remove identifiers, alter…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-07-04 Noseong Park , Mahmoud Mohammadi , Kshitij Gorde , Sushil Jajodia , Hongkyu Park , Youngmin Kim

Synthetic data generation for tabular datasets must balance fidelity, efficiency, and versatility to meet the demands of real-world applications. We introduce the Tabular Auto-Regressive Generative Network (TabularARGN), a flexible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Paul Tiwald , Ivona Krchova , Andrey Sidorenko , Mariana Vargas Vieyra , Mario Scriminaci , Michael Platzer

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

Synthetic data generation has recently gained widespread attention as a more reliable alternative to traditional data anonymization. The involved methods are originally developed for image synthesis. Hence, their application to the…

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

We provide new algorithms for two tasks relating to heterogeneous tabular datasets: clustering, and synthetic data generation. Tabular datasets typically consist of heterogeneous data types (numerical, ordinal, categorical) in columns, but…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Chandrani Kumari , Rahul Siddharthan

The ability to generate synthetic data has a variety of use cases across different domains. In education research, there is a growing need to have access to synthetic data to test certain concepts and ideas. In recent years, several deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Herkulaas MvE Combrink , Vukosi Marivate , Benjamin Rosman

This work presents a systematic benchmark of differentially private synthetic data generation algorithms that can generate tabular data. Utility of the synthetic data is evaluated by measuring whether the synthetic data preserve the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Yuchao Tao , Ryan McKenna , Michael Hay , Ashwin Machanavajjhala , Gerome Miklau

Background: Heart failure (HF) research is constrained by limited access to large, shareable datasets due to privacy regulations and institutional barriers. Synthetic data generation offers a promising solution to overcome these challenges…

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) have drawn considerable attention in recent years for their proven capability in generating synthetic data which can be utilised for multiple purposes. While GANs have demonstrated tremendous successes…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Abdallah Alshantti , Damiano Varagnolo , Adil Rasheed , Aria Rahmati , Frank Westad

Synthetic data generation has emerged as an invaluable solution in scenarios where real-world data collection and usage are limited by cost and scarcity. Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in producing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Anh Nguyen , Sam Schafft , Nicholas Hale , John Alfaro

Sharing of tabular data containing valuable but private information is limited due to legal and ethical issues. Synthetic data could be an alternative solution to this sharing problem, as it is artificially generated by machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Fatima J. Sarmin , Atiquer R. Rahman , Christopher J. Henry , Noman Mohammed

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

Synthetic data generation has been widely adopted in software testing, data privacy, imbalanced learning, and artificial intelligence explanation. In all such contexts, it is crucial to generate plausible data samples. A common assumption…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Martina Cinquini , Fosca Giannotti , Riccardo Guidotti