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ArticleTransactions on machine learning research2025

Balanced Mixed-Type Tabular Data Synthesis with Diffusion Models.

Zeyu Yang, Han Yu, Peikun Guo, Khadija Zanna, Xiaoxue Yang, Akane Sano

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Article in Transactions on machine learning research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Zeyu YangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.
Han YuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.
Peikun GuoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.
Khadija ZannaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.
Xiaoxue YangDepartment of Computing Imperial College London.
Akane SanoDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rice University.

Funding

SCH: Multidimensional Data Science Approach: Measuring and Characterizing Craving and Affective Profiles in Substance Use DisordersR01DA059925 · NIDA · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI Nidal Moukaddam, Akane Sano · 2023 to 2026
$1.2M
Using moment-to-moment sensors, mobile technology, and stimulated cytokine responses to identify physical and mental health risk among Alzheimer's spousal caregiversK25AG070306 · NIA · RICE UNIVERSITY · PI SANO, AKANE · 2021 to 2023
$432k
NIA NIH HHS K25 AG070306NIDA NIH HHS R01 DA059925
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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, which may influence discriminatory actions. In this research, we introduce a novel tabular diffusion model that incorporates sensitive guidance to generate fair synthetic data with balanced joint distributions of the target label and sensitive attributes, such as sex and race. The empirical results demonstrate that our method effectively mitigates bias in training data while maintaining the quality of the generated samples. Furthermore, we provide evidence that our approach outperforms existing methods for synthesizing tabular data on fairness metrics such as demographic parity ratio and equalized odds ratio, achieving improvements of over 10%. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/comp-well-org/fair-tab-diffusion.

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PMID41815871
PMCPMC12975070

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