Bi-discriminator GAN for tabular data synthesis

  • Mohammad Esmaeilpour
  • , Nourhene Chaalia
  • , Adel Abusitta
  • , Franşois Xavier Devailly
  • , Wissem Maazoun
  • , Patrick Cardinal

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Abstract

This paper introduces a bi-discriminator GAN for synthesizing tabular datasets containing continuous, binary, and discrete columns. Our proposed approach employs an adapted preprocessing scheme and a novel conditional term using the χβ2 distribution for the generator network to more effectively capture the input sample distributions. Additionally, we implement straightforward yet effective architectures for discriminator networks aiming at providing more discriminative gradient information to the generator. Our experimental results on four benchmarking public datasets corroborates the superior performance of our GAN both in terms of likelihood fitness metric and machine learning efficacy.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)204-210
Number of pages7
JournalPattern Recognition Letters
Volume159
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2022

!!!Keywords

  • Bi-discriminator GAN
  • Conditional generator
  • Generative adversarial network (GAN)
  • Tabular data synthesis
  • Variational Gaussian mixture model (VGM)

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