Summary of Balanced Mixed-type Tabular Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models, by Zeyu Yang et al.
Balanced Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models
by Zeyu Yang, Han Yu, Peikun Guo, Khadija Zanna, Xiaoxue Yang, Akane Sano
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research introduces a novel tabular diffusion model that generates fair synthetic data by incorporating sensitive guidance. The model mitigates bias in training data while maintaining the quality of generated samples, outperforming existing methods on fairness metrics such as demographic parity ratio and equalized odds ratio. The approach achieves improvements of over 10% compared to current state-of-the-art methods. This paper showcases a robust framework for generating synthetic tabular data that is free from bias and can be used in various applications. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research makes a fair and balanced way to create fake data using a special kind of machine learning model called a diffusion model. The new method helps get rid of the biases in the original data and creates fake data that is just as good, but without the bad parts. It’s better than other ways of doing this because it’s more fair and does a better job on measuring fairness. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Diffusion model * Machine learning * Synthetic data
