Dependency-aware synthetic tabular data generation

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19211v1
• Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 12:29:58 GMT
• Title: Dependency-aware synthetic tabular data generation
• Authors: Chaithra Umesh, Kristian Schultz, Manjunath Mahendra, Saptarshi Bej, Olaf Wolkenhauer,
• Abstract summary: In particular, functional dependencies (FDs) and logical dependencies (LDs) are rarely or often poorly retained in synthetic datasets.<n>We propose the Hierarchical Feature Generation Framework (HFGF), which generates independent features and reconstructs dependent features based on FD and LD rules.<n>Our experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that HFGF improves the preservation of FDs and LDs across six generative models.
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• Abstract: Synthetic tabular data is increasingly used in privacy-sensitive domains such as health care, but existing generative models often fail to preserve inter-attribute relationships. In particular, functional dependencies (FDs) and logical dependencies (LDs), which capture deterministic and rule-based associations between features, are rarely or often poorly retained in synthetic datasets. To address this research gap, we propose the Hierarchical Feature Generation Framework (HFGF) for synthetic tabular data generation. We created benchmark datasets with known dependencies to evaluate our proposed HFGF. The framework first generates independent features using any standard generative model, and then reconstructs dependent features based on predefined FD and LD rules. Our experiments on four benchmark datasets with varying sizes, feature imbalance, and dependency complexity demonstrate that HFGF improves the preservation of FDs and LDs across six generative models, including CTGAN, TVAE, and GReaT. Our findings demonstrate that HFGF can significantly enhance the structural fidelity and downstream utility of synthetic tabular data.

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