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Structured data summarization involves generation of natural language summaries from structured input data. In this work, we consider summarizing structured data occurring in the form of tables as they are prevalent across a wide variety of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-16 Parag Jain , Anirban Laha , Karthik Sankaranarayanan , Preksha Nema , Mitesh M. Khapra , Shreyas Shetty

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer a flexible means to generate synthetic tabular data, yet existing approaches often fail to preserve key causal parameters such as the average treatment effect (ATE). In this technical exploration, we first…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Dana Kim , Yichen Xu , Tiffany Lin

Tabular language models can generate synthetic tables by modeling rows as token sequences, but they are typically trained once with supervised fine-tuning and then used as static synthesizers. This is limiting because next-token likelihood…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Yunbo Long , Tejumade Afonja , Guangya Hao , Alexandra Brintrup , Mario Fritz

Tabular data synthesis involves not only multi-table synthesis but also generating multi-modal data (e.g., strings and categories), which enables diverse knowledge synthesis. However, separating numerical and categorical data has limited…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Tung Sum Thomas Kwok , Chi-Hua Wang , Guang Cheng

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

We propose a novel document generation process based on hierarchical latent tree models (HLTMs) learned from data. An HLTM has a layer of observed word variables at the bottom and multiple layers of latent variables on top. For each…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-01 Peixian Chen , Zhourong Chen , Nevin L. Zhang

Database research and the development of learned query optimisers rely heavily on realistic SQL workloads. Acquiring real-world queries is increasingly difficult, however, due to strict privacy regulations, and publicly released anonymised…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Kahan Mehta , Amit Mankodi

Synthetic datasets are widely used for training urban scene recognition models, but even highly realistic renderings show a noticeable gap to real imagery. This gap is particularly pronounced when adapting to a specific target domain, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Denis Zavadski , Damjan Kalšan , Tim Küchler , Haebom Lee , Stefan Roth , Carsten Rother

Diffusion models have emerged as a robust framework for various generative tasks, including tabular data synthesis. However, current tabular diffusion models tend to inherit bias in the training dataset and generate biased synthetic data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Zeyu Yang , Han Yu , Peikun Guo , Khadija Zanna , Xiaoxue Yang , Akane Sano

In this work, we introduce a novel methodology for divisive hierarchical clustering. Our divisive (``top-down'') approach is motivated by the fact that agglomerative hierarchical clustering (``bottom-up''), which is commonly used for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-07 Jan O. Bauer

Data sharing is a prerequisite for collaborative innovation, enabling organizations to leverage diverse datasets for deeper insights. In real-world applications like FinTech and Smart Manufacturing, transactional data, often in tabular…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Mengmeng Yang , Chi-Hung Chi , Kwok-Yan Lam , Jie Feng , Taolin Guo , Wei Ni

Extracting structured information from text, such as key-value pairs that could augment tabular data, is quite useful in many enterprise use cases. Although large language models (LLMs) have enabled numerous automated pipelines for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Satyananda Kashyap , Sola Shirai , Nandana Mihindukulasooriya , Horst Samulowitz

Hierarchical Extreme Multi-Label Classification poses greater difficulties compared to traditional multi-label classification because of the intricate hierarchical connections of labels within a domain-specific taxonomy and the substantial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Linqing Chen , Weilei Wang , Wentao Wu , Hanmeng Zhong

Hierarchical forecasting with intermittent time series is a challenge in both research and empirical studies. Extensive research focuses on improving the accuracy of each hierarchy, especially the intermittent time series at bottom levels.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-02-22 Matthias Anderer , Feng Li

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

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

Synthetic data has emerged as a crucial solution to the data scarcity bottleneck in large language models (LLMs), particularly for specialized domains and low-resource languages. However, the broader adoption of existing synthetic data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zhichao Shi , Cehao Yang , Hao Zhou , Xiaojun Wu , Huajie Li , Xuhui Jiang , Chengjin Xu , Yuanzhuo Wang , Jian Guo

Synthetic tabular data is used for privacy-preserving data sharing and data-driven model development. Its effectiveness, however, depends heavily on the used Tabular Data Synthesis (TDS) tool. Recent studies have shown that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Maria F. Davila R , Azizjon Turaev , Wolfram Wingerath

High-quality training data is critical to the performance of machine learning models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs). However, obtaining real, high-quality data can be challenging, especially for smaller organizations and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Cristian Del Gobbo

Research on differentially private synthetic tabular data has largely focused on independent and identically distributed rows where each record corresponds to a unique individual. This perspective neglects the temporal complexity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Lucas Rosenblatt , Peihan Liu , Ryan McKenna , Natalia Ponomareva