Summary of Tabular Data Generation Using Binary Diffusion, by Vitaliy Kinakh et al.
Tabular Data Generation using Binary Diffusion
by Vitaliy Kinakh, Slava Voloshynovskiy
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Sep 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 A novel approach for generating synthetic tabular data is proposed, tackling the challenges of mixed data types and varied distributions. A lossless binary transformation method converts tabular data into fixed-size binary representations, accompanied by a new generative model called Binary Diffusion. This model leverages XOR operations for noise addition and removal, and employs binary cross-entropy loss for training. The approach eliminates the need for extensive preprocessing, complex noise parameter tuning, and pretraining on large datasets. The authors evaluate their model on several popular tabular benchmark datasets, demonstrating that Binary Diffusion outperforms existing state-of-the-art models on Travel, Adult Income, and Diabetes datasets while being significantly smaller in size. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Generating synthetic tabular data is important for machine learning when real data is limited or sensitive. This paper introduces a new way to create binary representations of tabular data without losing any information. It also creates a special generative model called Binary Diffusion that’s designed specifically for this type of data. The approach is simpler and doesn’t need as much training or preprocessing as other methods. The authors test their model on several popular datasets and show that it performs better than current state-of-the-art models. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Cross entropy » Diffusion » Generative model » Machine learning » Pretraining
