Summary of Structured Evaluation Of Synthetic Tabular Data, by Scott Cheng-hsin Yang et al.
Structured Evaluation of Synthetic Tabular Data
by Scott Cheng-Hsin Yang, Baxter Eaves, Michael Schmidt, Ken Swanson, Patrick Shafto
First submitted to arxiv on: 15 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes an evaluation framework for synthetic tabular data generation, addressing the lack of a unified understanding of various quality metrics. The framework aims to ensure that synthetic data is drawn from the same distribution as observed data, allowing for reasoning about metric completeness and unifying existing methods. This approach motivates model-free baselines and new metrics, demonstrating the superiority of synthesizers that explicitly represent tabular structure on smaller datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps solve a big problem with making fake data by creating a way to measure how good the fake data is. Right now, there are many different ways to check if synthetic data is good, but they don’t work well together. The researchers came up with a new system that makes it easy to compare these metrics and shows that some methods are better than others at making small datasets. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Synthetic data
