machine learning

Synthesizing real-world distributions from high-dimensional Gaussian Noise with Fully Connected Neural Network

arXiv:2604.09091

summary

The paper introduces a fully connected neural network that converts high‑dimensional Gaussian noise into synthetic tabular data resembling real datasets, using preprocessing, PCA, and novel Wasserstein‑based loss functions to improve similarity, privacy, and generation speed.

Abstract

The use of synthetic data in machine learning applications and research offers many benefits, including performance improvements through data augmentation and privacy preservation of original samples. This work proposes an efficient synthetic data generation method based on a fully connected neural network that transforms a high-dimensional random Gaussian distribution to approximate a target real-world dataset. The proposed solution combines data preprocessing designed for tabular data with distribution modeling and PCA dimensionality reduction to further enhance data privacy. The work also defines two dedicated randomized loss functions based on Wasserstein distance combined with feature Covariance and a randomized pairwise error reduction loss function. The experiments conducted on 25 diverse tabular real-world datasets confirm that the proposed solution obtains similarity and privacy scores relative to the state-of-the-art generative methods and achieves reference MMD scores orders of magnitude faster than modern deep learning solutions. The experiments involved analyzing distributional similarity, privacy protection, and the utility of synthetic data in classification tasks.

Topics & keywords

#synthetic data generation#tabular data#generative modeling#privacy preservation#neural networksfully connected neural networkGaussian noiseWasserstein distancePCA dimensionality reductionMMDprivacy-aware synthetic data
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