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Tree ensembles such as XGBoost are often preferred for discriminative tasks in mixed-type tabular data, due to their inductive biases, minimal hyperparameter tuning, and training efficiency. We argue that these qualities, when leveraged…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jim Achterberg , Marcel Haas , Bram van Dijk , Marco Spruit

Diffusion-based tabular data synthesis models have yielded promising results. However, when the data dimensionality increases, existing models tend to degenerate and may perform even worse than simpler, non-diffusion-based models. This is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Zuqing Li , Junhao Gan , Jianzhong Qi

Diffusion models has emerged as a powerful framework for tasks like image controllable generation and dense prediction. However, existing models often struggle to capture underlying semantics (e.g., edges, textures, shapes) and effectively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Zhong Ji , Weilong Cao , Yan Zhang , Yanwei Pang , Jungong Han , Xuelong Li

Dealing with severe class imbalance poses a major challenge for real-world applications, especially when the accurate classification and generalization of minority classes is of primary interest. In computer vision, learning from long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Zidi Xiu , Junya Chen , Ricardo Henao , Benjamin Goldstein , Lawrence Carin , Chenyang Tao

The tabular form constitutes the standard way of representing data in relational database systems and spreadsheets. But, similarly to other forms, tabular data suffers from class imbalance, a problem that causes serious performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Leonidas Akritidis , Panayiotis Bozanis

Most real-world classification problems deal with imbalanced datasets, posing a challenge for Artificial Intelligence (AI), i.e., machine learning algorithms, because the minority class, which is of extreme interest, often proves difficult…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Gissel Velarde , Michael Weichert , Anuj Deshmunkh , Sanjay Deshmane , Anindya Sudhir , Khushboo Sharma , Vaibhav Joshi

Diffusion-based models have shown the merits of generating high-quality visual data while preserving better diversity in recent studies. However, such observation is only justified with curated data distribution, where the data samples are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yiming Qin , Huangjie Zheng , Jiangchao Yao , Mingyuan Zhou , Ya Zhang

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Andrei Margeloiu , Xiangjian Jiang , Nikola Simidjievski , Mateja Jamnik

While diffusion models excel at generating high-quality samples, their latent variables typically lack semantic meaning and are not suitable for representation learning. Here, we propose InfoDiffusion, an algorithm that augments diffusion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Yingheng Wang , Yair Schiff , Aaron Gokaslan , Weishen Pan , Fei Wang , Christopher De Sa , Volodymyr Kuleshov

The recovery of training data from generative models ("model inversion") has been extensively studied for diffusion models in the data domain as a memorization/overfitting phenomenon. Latent diffusion models (LDMs), which operate on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Mingxing Rao , Bowen Qu , Daniel Moyer

A common objective in the analysis of tabular data is estimating the conditional distribution (in contrast to only producing predictions) of a set of "outcome" variables given a set of "covariates", which is sometimes referred to as the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-10-08 Zhuoqun Wang , Naoki Awaya , Li Ma

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

Generative data augmentation with latent diffusion models is a promising strategy for addressing class imbalance in medical imaging, yet current approaches focus on perceptual fidelity and domain-specific autoencoder fine-tuning while…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mischa Dombrowski , Felix Nützel , Bernhard Kainz

Diffusion models are instrumental in text-to-audio (TTA) generation. Unfortunately, they suffer from slow inference due to an excessive number of queries to the underlying denoising network per generation. To address this bottleneck, we…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yatong Bai , Trung Dang , Dung Tran , Kazuhito Koishida , Somayeh Sojoudi

A generative modeling framework is proposed that combines diffusion models and manifold learning to efficiently sample data densities on manifolds. The approach utilizes Diffusion Maps to uncover possible low-dimensional underlying (latent)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Dimitris G. Giovanis , Ellis Crabtree , Roger G. Ghanem , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis

Ensuring fairness in machine learning remains a significant challenge, as models often inherit biases from their training data. Generative models have recently emerged as a promising approach to mitigate bias at the data level while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Emmanouil Panagiotou , Benoît Ronval , Arjun Roy , Ludwig Bothmann , Bernd Bischl , Siegfried Nijssen , Eirini Ntoutsi

Novel machine learning methods for tabular data generation are often developed on small datasets which do not match the scale required for scientific applications. We investigate a recent proposal to use XGBoost as the function approximator…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Jesse C. Cresswell , Taewoo Kim

Autoregressive models are predominant in natural language generation, while their application in tabular data remains underexplored. We posit that this can be attributed to two factors: 1) tabular data contains heterogeneous data type,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Hengrui Zhang , Liancheng Fang , Qitian Wu , Philip S. Yu

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

Discrete diffusion models have emerged as a powerful class of models and a promising route to fast language generation, but practical implementations typically rely on factored reverse transitions ignoring cross-token dependencies and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Dario Shariatian , Alain Durmus , Umut Simsekli , Stefano Peluchetti