Causal-TGAN: Generating Tabular Data Using Causal Generative Adversarial Networks

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.10680v1
• Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 17:59:41 GMT
• Title: Causal-TGAN: Generating Tabular Data Using Causal Generative Adversarial Networks
• Authors: Bingyang Wen, Luis Oliveros Colon, K.P. Subbalakshmi and R. Chandramouli
• Abstract summary: We propose a causal model named Causal Tabular Generative Neural Network (Causal-TGAN) to generate synthetic data. Experiments on both simulated datasets and real datasets demonstrate the better performance of our method.
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• Abstract: Synthetic data generation becomes prevalent as a solution to privacy leakage and data shortage. Generative models are designed to generate a realistic synthetic dataset, which can precisely express the data distribution for the real dataset. The generative adversarial networks (GAN), which gain great success in the computer vision fields, are doubtlessly used for synthetic data generation. Though there are prior works that have demonstrated great progress, most of them learn the correlations in the data distributions rather than the true processes in which the datasets are naturally generated. Correlation is not reliable for it is a statistical technique that only tells linear dependencies and is easily affected by the dataset's bias. Causality, which encodes all underlying factors of how the real data be naturally generated, is more reliable than correlation. In this work, we propose a causal model named Causal Tabular Generative Neural Network (Causal-TGAN) to generate synthetic tabular data using the tabular data's causal information. Extensive experiments on both simulated datasets and real datasets demonstrate the better performance of our method when given the true causal graph and a comparable performance when using the estimated causal graph.

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