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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…

Imbalanced data are commonly present in real-world applications. While data synthesis can effectively mitigate data scarcity for rare classes, and LLMs have revolutionized text generation, the application of LLMs to the synthesis of…

Synthetic tabular data generation has emerged as a promising method to address limited data availability and privacy concerns. With the sharp increase in the performance of large language models in recent years, researchers have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-28 Reilly Cannon , Nicolette M. Laird , Caesar Vazquez , Andy Lin , Amy Wagler , Tony Chiang

Data synthesis is gaining momentum as a privacy-enhancing technology. While single-table tabular data generation has seen considerable progress, current methods for multi-table data often lack the flexibility and expressiveness needed to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Davide Scassola , Sebastiano Saccani , Luca Bortolussi

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

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

Synthetic data serves as an alternative in training machine learning models, particularly when real-world data is limited or inaccessible. However, ensuring that synthetic data mirrors the complex nuances of real-world data is a challenging…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Lasse Hansen , Nabeel Seedat , Mihaela van der Schaar , Andrija Petrovic

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

The application of machine learning on tabular data in specialized domains is severely limited by data scarcity. While generative models offer a solution, traditional methods falter in low-data regimes, and recent Large Language Models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Siyi Liu , Yujia Zheng , Yongqi Zhang

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

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Zilong Zhao , Aditya Kunar , Robert Birke , Lydia Y. Chen

Tabular data is common yet typically incomplete, small in volume, and access-restricted due to privacy concerns. Synthetic data generation offers potential solutions. Many metrics exist for evaluating the quality of synthetic tabular data;…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang , Baxter Eaves , Michael Schmidt , Ken Swanson , Patrick Shafto

Synthetic datasets are important for evaluating and testing machine learning models. When evaluating real-life recommender systems, high-dimensional categorical (and sparse) datasets are often considered. Unfortunately, there are not many…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Miha Malenšek , Blaž Škrlj , Blaž Mramor , Jure Demšar

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

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

The development of robust clinical decision support systems is frequently impeded by the scarcity of high-fidelity, privacy-preserving biomedical data. While Generative Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a promising avenue for synthetic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Arshia Ilaty , Hossein Shirazi , Amir Rahmani , Hajar Homayouni

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

Synthetic data offers a promising solution to two persistent barriers in supply chain analytics: data scarcity and data privacy. However, for synthetic data to support operational simulation and decision-making, it must do more than…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yunbo Long , Ge Zheng , Liming Xu , Alexandra Brintrup

Deep Generative Models (DGMs) have been shown to be powerful tools for generating tabular data, as they have been increasingly able to capture the complex distributions that characterize them. However, to generate realistic synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Salijona Dyrmishi , Maxime Cordy , Thomas Lukasiewicz , Eleonora Giunchiglia

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…

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