arXiv Machine Learning

FairDiffuseVQVAE: Sampling-Time Fairness in Tabular Diffusion via Conditional Refinement of Vector-Quantized Latents

arXiv:2607. 28945v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Synthetic tabular data is increasingly used in privacy-preserving data sharing, data augmentation, and to mitigate downstream classifier bias.

arXiv AI
Aug 17

Training Fair Tabular Foundation Models

arXiv:2608. 14211v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) have emerged as leading methods for tabular predictive tasks, leveraging in-context learning to predict on new data without task-specific training.

By Patrik Kenfack, Jesse C. Cresswell, Anthony L. Caterini, Samira Ebrahimi Kahou, Ulrich A\"ivodji
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

Portable Causal Fairness Across Synthetic Data Generator Families

The paper demonstrates that causal fairness mechanisms can be applied across a wide range of synthetic data generators, including marginal‑based, GAN, and diffusion models, each with differentially private variants. By porting three fairness definitions to nine generators and testing them on Adult and COMPAS datasets, the authors show that the causal diffusion backbone consistently produces the fairest data releases while maintaining high fidelity. The fairness cuts have minimal impact on data quality, costing downstream classifiers only about $0.07$ to $0.15$ AUC on average, and adding privacy guarantees does not reduce fairness.

By Steven Golob, Sikha Pentyala, Martine De Cock