arXiv Machine Learning

Synthesis Without Training: An Inference-Only Pipeline for Tabular, Temporal, and Relational Synthetic Data

GENSCRIPT is an inference‑only pipeline that generates synthetic data without training a generative model. It creates a deterministic statistical profile of the source data, uses a language model to infer field semantics and cross‑column constraints, and then compiles these into an executable sampler that works for single‑table, temporal, and relational data. The method builds generators in minutes, samples large datasets quickly, and achieves fidelity comparable to leading methods while preserving key data relationships such as 1‑to‑1 mappings and primary‑foreign key constraints.

arXiv AI
Jun 26

Limited Reference, Reliable Generation: A Two-Component Framework for Tabular Data Generation in Low-Data Regimes

arXiv:2509. 09960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Synthetic tabular data generation is increasingly essential in machine learning, supporting downstream applications when real-world, high-quality tabular data is insufficient.

By Mingxuan Jiang, Keyang Chen, Yongxin Wang, Yongsheng Zhao, Ziyue Dai, Yicun Liu, Zeping Li, Qiuyang Zhang, Hongyi Nie, Hongbin Zhu, Sen Liu, Guangnan Ye, Hongfeng Chai
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 9

ReTabSyn: Realistic Tabular Data Synthesis via Reinforcement Learning

arXiv:2603. 10823v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Deep generative models can help with data scarcity and privacy by producing synthetic training data, but they struggle in low-data, imbalanced tabular settings to fully learn the complex data distribution.

By Xiaofeng Lin, Seungbae Kim, Zhuoya Li, Zachary DeSoto, Charles Fleming, Guang Cheng
arXiv AI
Sep 15

CodeTS: Verifiable Text-to-Time Series Generation via Executable Code

CodeTS introduces a verifiable framework for generating time series from natural language by translating textual temporal descriptions into executable code, which then produces the desired series. The approach constructs aligned Text‑Code‑TS triplets for supervised initialization and employs multi‑stage execution‑based rewards to ensure code validity and time‑series quality. Experiments on eight benchmarks show that CodeTS outperforms both LLM‑based and supervised generative baselines, offering a strong zero‑shot solution for Text‑to‑TS generation.

By Xudong Yuan, Shunyu Liu, Tongya Zheng, Huiping Zhuang, Mingli Song, Kaixuan Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 5

Incremental Transformer Neural Processes

arXiv:2602. 18955v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Neural Processes (NPs), and specifically Transformer Neural Processes (TNPs), have demonstrated remarkable performance across tasks ranging from spatiotemporal forecasting to tabular data modelling.

By Philip Mortimer, Cristiana Diaconu, Tommy Rochussen, Bruno Mlodozeniec, Richard E. Turner
arXiv AI
Jun 30

Beyond IID: How General Are Tabular Foundation Models, Really?

arXiv:2606. 30410v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for predictive machine learning on tabular data have recently gained significant traction in academia and industry.

By Lennart Purucker, Andrej Tschalzev, Nick Erickson, Gioia Blayer, David Holzm\"uller, Alan Arazi, Alexander Pfefferle, Mustafa Tajjar, Ga\"el Varoquaux, Frank Hutter
arXiv AI
Sep 15

Generalization Can Emerge in Tabular Foundation Models From a Single Table

The paper demonstrates that a tabular foundation model can achieve strong generalization using only a single real table for self‑supervised pre‑training, challenging the belief that large synthetic or real datasets are necessary. By systematically pre‑training and evaluating across diverse benchmarks, the authors show that the number and quality of tasks that can be derived from a dataset are critical for downstream performance. This finding suggests that carefully constructed task sets from limited data can enable effective transfer learning in tabular models.

By Junwei Ma, Nour Shaheen, Alex Labach, Amine Mhedhbi, Frank Hutter, Anthony L. Caterini, Valentin Thomas