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Synthetic tabular data generation becomes crucial when real data is limited, expensive to collect, or simply cannot be used due to privacy concerns. However, producing good quality synthetic data is challenging. Several probabilistic,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Vikram S Chundawat , Ayush K Tarun , Murari Mandal , Mukund Lahoti , Pratik Narang

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

The size of large, geo-located datasets has reached scales where visualization of all data points is inefficient. Random sampling is a method to reduce the size of a dataset, yet it can introduce unwanted errors. We describe a method for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-09-14 Yan Zheng , Yi Ou , Alexander Lex , Jeff M. Phillips

We study the problem of instance segmentation in biological images with crowded and compact cells. We formulate this task as an integer program where variables correspond to cells and constraints enforce that cells do not overlap. To solve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-22 Chong Zhang , Shaofei Wang , Miguel A. Gonzalez-Ballester , Julian Yarkony

Due to the increasing volume, volatility, and diversity of data in virtually all areas of our lives, the ability to detect duplicates in potentially linked data sources is more important than ever before. However, while research is already…

Databases · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Fabian Panse , Wolfram Wingerath , Benjamin Wollmer

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

As privacy regulations become more stringent and access to real-world data becomes increasingly constrained, synthetic data generation has emerged as a vital solution, especially for tabular datasets, which are central to domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Raju Challagundla , Mohsen Dorodchi , Pu Wang , Minwoo Lee

Generative modelling is a demanding test of foundation models, because it requires robust, holistic representation learning for a given data modality, rather than optimisation for a supervised prediction target alone. While recent work on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Xiangjian Jiang , Mingxuan Liu , Nikola Simidjievski , Tassilo Klein , Mateja Jamnik

Data used for analytics and machine learning often take the form of tables with categorical entries. We introduce a family of lossless compression algorithms for such data that proceed in four steps: $(i)$ Estimate latent variables…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Andrea Montanari , Eric Weiner

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

In real world domains, most graphs naturally exhibit a hierarchical structure. However, data-driven graph generation is yet to effectively capture such structures. To address this, we propose a novel approach that recursively generates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mahdi Karami , Jun Luo

Tabular data is a common form of organizing data. Multiple models are available to generate synthetic tabular datasets where observations are independent, but few have the ability to produce relational datasets. Modeling relational data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Aivin V. Solatorio , Olivier Dupriez

Tabular data is difficult to analyze and to search through, yielding for new tools and interfaces that would allow even non tech-savvy users to gain insights from open datasets without resorting to specialized data analysis tools or even…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-08-31 Svitlana Vakulenko , Vadim Savenkov

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

While tabular data is fundamental to many real-world machine learning (ML) applications, acquiring high-quality tabular data is usually labor-intensive and expensive. Limited by the scarcity of observations, tabular datasets often exhibit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Congjing Zhang , Ryan Feng Lin , Ruoxuan Bao , Shuai Huang

Learning probabilistic models that can estimate the density of a given set of samples, and generate samples from that density, is one of the fundamental challenges in unsupervised machine learning. We introduce a new generative model based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Siavash A. Bigdeli , Geng Lin , Tiziano Portenier , L. Andrea Dunbar , Matthias Zwicker

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

We present several generative and predictive algorithms based on the RKHS (reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces) methodology, which, most importantly, are scale up efficiently with large datasets or high-dimensional data. It is well recognized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-12-12 Philippe G. LeFloch , Jean-Marc Mercier , Shohruh Miryusupov

Realistic synthetic tabular data generation encounters significant challenges in preserving privacy, especially when dealing with sensitive information in domains like finance and healthcare. In this paper, we introduce \textit{Federated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-15 Timur Sattarov , Marco Schreyer , Damian Borth

Handling imbalanced target distributions in regression poses a persistent challenge, as the underrepresentation of relevant target values can significantly hinder model performance. Existing data-level solutions often adapt…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-12 António Pedro Pinheiro , Rita P. Ribeiro