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Recently, the topic of table pre-training has attracted considerable research interest. However, how to employ table pre-training to boost the performance of tabular prediction remains an open challenge. In this paper, we propose TapTap,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Tianping Zhang , Shaowen Wang , Shuicheng Yan , Jian Li , Qian Liu

The Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm is one of the most popular methods used to solve the problem of parametric distribution-based clustering in unsupervised learning. In this paper, we propose to analyze a generalized EM (GEM)…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-05-19 Sarthak Chatterjee , Orlando Romero , Sérgio Pequito

Generative modelling has become the standard approach for synthesising tabular data. However, different use cases demand synthetic data to comply with different requirements to be useful in practice. In this survey, we review deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Mihaela Cătălina Stoian , Eleonora Giunchiglia , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Clustering high-dimensional data is especially challenging when cluster distributions are heavy tailed and only approximately elliptical. Existing high-dimensional methods are largely built for Gaussian or other light-tailed models, whereas…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Long Feng , Dan Zhuang

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

Tabular data generation has become increasingly essential for enabling robust machine learning applications, which require large-scale, high-quality data. Existing solutions leverage generative models to learn original data distributions.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Yafeng Tang , Xiaoou Ding , Jianzhuo Du , Zishuo Yan , Zhuang Ma , Zheng Liang , Zekai Qian , Hongzhi Wang

Entity Matching (EM), which aims to identify whether two entity records from two relational tables refer to the same real-world entity, is one of the fundamental problems in data management. Traditional EM assumes that two tables are…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Pengfei Wang , Xiaocan Zeng , Lu Chen , Fan Ye , Yuren Mao , Junhao Zhu , Yunjun Gao

Data-driven modelling and computational predictions based on maximum entropy principle (MaxEnt-principle) aim at finding as-simple-as-possible - but not simpler then necessary - models that allow to avoid the data overfitting problem. We…

Computation · Statistics 2020-11-25 Horenko Illia , Marchenko Ganna , Gagliardini Patrick

While generative recommendations (GR) possess strong sequential reasoning capabilities, they face significant challenges when processing extremely long user behavior sequences: the high computational cost forces practical sequence lengths…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yu Zhou , Chengcheng Guo , Kuo Cai , Ji Liu , Qiang Luo , Ruiming Tang , Han Li , Kun Gai , Guorui Zhou

Prevalent semantic segmentation solutions are, in essence, a dense discriminative classifier of p(class|pixel feature). Though straightforward, this de facto paradigm neglects the underlying data distribution p(pixel feature|class), and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-06 Chen Liang , Wenguan Wang , Jiaxu Miao , Yi Yang

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

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 recent times Large Language Models have exhibited tremendous capabilities, especially in the areas of mathematics, code generation and general-purpose reasoning. However for specialized domains especially in applications that require…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Sujit Khanna , Shishir Subedi

Data quality remains an important challenge in data-driven systems, as errors in tabular data can severely compromise downstream analytics and machine learning performance. Although numerous error detection algorithms have been proposed,…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Xinyuan Liu , Jiahui Chen , Bocheng Hu , Yu Sun , Xinyang Chen , Shaoxu Song , Yongxin Tong

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) implicitly learn the probability distribution of a dataset and can draw samples from the distribution. This paper presents, Tabular GAN (TGAN), a generative adversarial network which can generate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-29 Lei Xu , Kalyan Veeramachaneni

We consider the problem of learning deep generative models from data. We formulate a method that generates an independent sample via a single feedforward pass through a multilayer perceptron, as in the recently proposed generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-02-11 Yujia Li , Kevin Swersky , Richard Zemel

We study private synthetic data generation for query release, where the goal is to construct a sanitized version of a sensitive dataset, subject to differential privacy, that approximately preserves the answers to a large collection of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Terrance Liu , Giuseppe Vietri , Zhiwei Steven Wu

In recent years, several models have improved the capacity to generate synthetic tabular datasets. However, such models focus on synthesizing simple columnar tables and are not useable on real-life data with complex structures. This paper…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Luca Canale , Nicolas Grislain , Grégoire Lothe , Johan Leduc

While Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) achieve spectacular results on unstructured data like images, there is still a gap on tabular data, data for which state of the art supervised learning still favours to a large extent decision…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Richard Nock , Mathieu Guillame-Bert

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