Summary of Causality For Tabular Data Synthesis: a High-order Structure Causal Benchmark Framework, by Ruibo Tu et al.
Causality for Tabular Data Synthesis: A High-Order Structure Causal Benchmark Framework
by Ruibo Tu, Zineb Senane, Lele Cao, Cheng Zhang, Hedvig Kjellström, Gustav Eje Henter
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper addresses the limitations of tabular synthesis models in capturing complex dependencies and generating high-quality synthetic data. The authors argue that a lack of prior knowledge about underlying structures and high-order relationships in tabular data hinders progress in this area. To tackle this challenge, they introduce a benchmark framework for evaluating tabular synthesis models’ ability to capture high-order structural causal information. This framework allows for the generation of benchmark datasets with flexible data generation processes and trains tabular synthesis models for further evaluation. The authors propose multiple benchmark tasks, high-order metrics, and causal inference tasks as downstream applications for assessing synthetic data quality. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this benchmarking approach in evaluating model capabilities. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Tabular synthesis models struggle to capture complex dependencies and generate good-quality synthetic data. This is because there’s not enough prior knowledge about underlying structures and relationships in tabular data. To help solve this problem, researchers are working on a new evaluation framework for these models. This framework allows them to create test datasets with different types of data generation processes and train the models to see how well they perform. The goal is to develop better synthetic data that can be used for tasks like predicting under changing conditions or making automated decisions. The paper shows how this approach can help evaluate model performance and identifies areas where current models are falling short. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Inference » Synthetic data
