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A unified framework for tabular generative modeling: loss functions, benchmarks, and improved multi-objective bayesian optimization approaches
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2391-1419
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Physics.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5420-0591
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Diagnostics and Intervention.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8851-2905
Umeå University, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Computing Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7119-7646
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2025 (English)In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research, E-ISSN 2835-8856, Vol. 12Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Deep learning (DL) models require extensive data to achieve strong performance and generalization. Deep generative models (DGMs) offer a solution by synthesizing data. Yet current approaches for tabular data often fail to preserve feature correlations and distributions during training, struggle with multi-metric hyperparameter selection, and lack comprehensive evaluation protocols. We address this gap with a unified framework that integrates training, hyperparameter tuning, and evaluation. First, we introduce a novel correlation- and distribution-aware loss function that regularizes DGMs, enhancing their ability to generate synthetic tabular data that faithfully represents the underlying data distributions. Theoretical analysis establishes stability and consistency guarantees. To enable principled hyper-parameter search via Bayesian optimization (BO), we also propose a new multi-objective aggregation strategy based on iterative objective refinement Bayesian optimization (IORBO), along with a comprehensive statistical testing framework. We validate the proposed approach using a benchmarking framework with twenty real-world datasets and ten established tabular DGM baselines. The correlation-aware loss function significantly improves the synthetic data fidelity and downstream machine learning (ML) performance, while IORBO consistently outperforms standard Bayesian optimization (SBO) in hyper-parameter selection. The unified framework advances tabular generative modeling beyond isolated method improvements. Code is available at: https://github.com/vuhoangminh/TabGen-Framework.

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Transactions on Machine Learning Research , 2025. Vol. 12
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-249190Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-105030246096OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-249190DiVA, id: diva2:2033602
Available from: 2026-01-29 Created: 2026-01-29 Last updated: 2026-03-13Bibliographically approved

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