Modeling Tabular data using Conditional GAN

Xu, Lei, Skoularidou, Maria, Cuesta-Infante, Alfredo, Veeramachaneni, Kalyan

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Modeling the probability distribution of rows in tabular data and generating realistic synthetic data is a non-trivial task. Tabular data usually contains a mix of discrete and continuous columns. Continuous columns may have multiple modes whereas discrete columns are sometimes imbalanced making the modeling difficult. Existing statistical and deep neural network models fail to properly model this type of data. We design CTGAN, which uses a conditional generative adversarial network to address these challenges.